Must I reassure her to be singing in the rain
With a glorious feeling; happy again?
What lies around the bend?
The point of no return?
Open roads off the map?
In cahoots with this dreamer
Or the nightmare of a poured out heart in repudiation?
Can I shake off this feeling of déjà vu
From long ago on a rainy Gold Mountain beach
When anyone but my first wife would do;
How I tried to woo her with encouragement
Missing kissing her as she turned away…
Will it be the scent of dried urine
Brought back from a puddle under the bridge?
When I look up to see a demon, smiling,
Waving at me mid-span,
Emptying a box of liquid into the river,
Somewhere under the rainbow
As stray dogs' menacing barks echo;
The harbinger of disappointment …
But wait!
The pack is safely on the other shore!
With a stream so defined and direct between us
From a love to a lover, which is more?
What pleasures other than love can endure?
Game for the great exchange
Come rain or come shine
With shelter in a storm
Or rhapsody in the rain.
May 18, 2020
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Copyright © 2020 by David Barry Temple. All rights reserved
May 18, 2020
www.readingsandridings.jimdo.com
Purchase "Unnatural Beauty; Poems from the Han Riverside"
Copyright © 2020 by David Barry Temple. All rights reserved
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