Rendevous With A Lost Love Poem by Penni Currie

Like a smile, the crescent moon lit up the sky
For a while all was quiet, all was still
There was a movement in the shadows
Like the soft whisper of a lovers caress
Footsteps slid almost soundlessly through the dark
I tirned from the broken street light where I stood
Where I waited, where I had waited
Where I still waited, hope slipping away
Now renewed with the almost imperceptible
sound of someone approaching
The shadow eclipsed the dim moonlight
A silver glint, the light playing on the back
of a fish, playfully jumping upstream
the day we spent by the river.
You kissed my neck, it kissed my throat
Icy, like the water that day
Brought a smile like the moon, to my sombre face
your hand slid down my body
awakening passion, sensations never felt before
lightheaded, as the blood drained away
I slid down the lampost to lie
at your feet, a crumpled heap
like our discarded clothes that day
Images flashed, conciousness flickered
As I was swept along in a tide of red, red passion
I didn't want to lose you, I wanted to hang on
As I now want to hang on to life
From behind a cloud, the smile slid
mocking, laughing. So I closed my eyes
and drifted off to the winter of my life.

06/1992