I Remember You

by Dawn Pisturino

 

I remember you:

Those violet eyes that any girl would envy;

The full lips curled into a boyish smile;

The long, tapered fingers and moist, warm hands.

Yes, I remember you,

For I loved you with all the romance

Of girlish dreams,

And whiled away the hours thinking only of you.

I lived for the simple touch of your hand

And sighed for a single kiss from your lips

And died for a kindly smile in those eyes,

O foolish dreamer that I was!

But my dream was more real to me than life itself,

And I hungered to wed dream to reality.

If you ever knew - or dared to know - my love for you,

It was not apparent in the course of time,

And O! how I wept the bitter tears of unrequited love --

That Great Enemy of adolescence which betrays the heart so well!

Yes, I remember you;

If you would but remember me as a simple child,

I would be happy.

 

July 29, 1986

"Rosemary for Remembrance"

 

BIO:  Dawn Pisturino's poems, limericks, short stories, and articles have appeared in/on Danse Macabre du Jour, Brooklyn Voice, Underneath the Juniper Tree, Working Writer, and several newspapers and anthologies. She currently resides in Arizona.