UNTIL YOU CAME
By Stanley Collymore
I deliberately put my deepest and most sensitive
feelings on hold, convinced that in this downright
selfish and quite arrogant world of mediocrity
where everything has a price tag stuck on it
and nothing, it seems, is ever done
without a cynical motive attached; that
I could survive untouched by all
the banality and fickleness
which I see around me;
and I was right.
But in my calculation I hadn’t reckoned with the
astonishing prospect of meeting someone like you;
because it never occurred to me that I would ever find
you in such a place and especially when I wasn’t
looking for anyone. Now my entire life is changed.
And like the early morning sunrise kissing the
dew-drenched flowers to life while gently
prising their petals apart in the intimacy
of a warm embrace - you, too, have
lovingly stirred me from my
somnolent world and, in the process,
re-awoken my deepest emotions
which, until you came, I was
quite content to let sleep.
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 December 1997.
(1997)
Waiting for that special one can sometimes be a lenghty process but when it eventually happens the wait has been truly worth waiting for.
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