It grabbed me today, some 14 years after we parted

Your card which started the Beat again and said:

"Though we can't be together..."

A Valentines card from Someone,  distances away That loved me

And now I visit you again Though not a day has past When your face didn't stare Me in the eye

Not a day when I didn't miss You, lean to you, want you, Remember us

Never did I make love to Another woman not during These 14 years

Like a monk, celibate for Over a decade because I left 

A skin that only knew you, Will always know you

 Somehow I really got Married to you, but never Gave a vow

A spoken thing

The Spirit is yours

There is no card

Only my missing

I am still married to you in Memory and the delf drop Still stinging until I wonder How I could be so alone

That was to be found later Inside my skin

Until subterranean I could Feel there will never be Another, never be a skin That touches mine before I Die

And I was dead until today When your card was found, Like a pale piece of Parchement that said "And I Look forward to the next Time we see each other.."

But we haven't for 14 years Now

You snuck up on me and I Lived for a second or two

Long enough to write this Poem

Long enough to read your Packaged Valentines' Greeting

Inside my love when we Said goodbye in a motel Room, and to this day I Remember your face,

Your leaving  face in your Car outside my room

We didn't make love that Last time 14  years ago, I Haven't since

I probably never shall

A shell

A distant visitor reading a Found card left on top of a Casket

Shaped like a man

Like a mirrored man

Who cried when he Bypassed all the flowers, all The condolences

And found a sinlge card Which ended with:

"Athough we may be apart, you are always in my heart always...Love you much,

Melynda"

I'm sending this card back To you

Wondering if your memory Is as good

And I shouldn't because 14 Years is a long time

But it was your card that

Made me so mad with love Again

That I have to try to remind You

To touch you