REVERIE - I THOUGHT

I thought we’d like

the same music

read the same books

see the same movies

I was wrong

I thought short of merit

our lives would dance freely

in our own clumsy way

we’d see ourselves

in one another

 I thought

I thought candle light and flowers

would swirl waves of passion

we’d like the same wine

confront the same dogmas

thought you’d be love’s metaphor

the imagery I fashioned

we’d be souls entwined in time

inseparable together

 I was wrong

thought I’d never be bored

thought I’d never be lonely

thought your touch

would make me tremble

thought our love

would warm and cuddle

thought what’s yours

would be mine

thought what’s mine

would be ours

thought I’d free myself

to be myself

thought I’d see myself

in you

I was wrong

From "EMBRACE" by Shirley Howard Hall

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