UNTIL YOU CAME

The realization that that special person has entered one's life!

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.