Nostalgia

A longing I wait,
After you are gone,
Visualizing your presence,
All over and more.

As I walk that very park,
Remember the park we met?
And once you gently had caressed my cheek,
Oh Beloved, come back for I,
I need to express,
How much, YES! I LOVE YOU!

A fear of closeness I feared too harsh,
Thus a step aback I had moved,
Then you went…back and back,
Till you reached that Lord’s hands!

Now as I read the morning news,
A painful case…a painful case…
Indeed a very PAINFUL CASE…

Your gentle touch I now long,
After you are gone,
Waiting your presence,
Just like the shore that stares to the eternal horizon…but just to see its shore!

(This is a poem I wrote after reading James Joyce’s A Painful Case. The poem is longing of love by James Duffy.)