Hold on My Heart

Hush! hear the serenade

Whisper through leaves then cascade

As he calls for me through time

Weaving his web of rhyme.

~

Stroking me with a voice of well-touched velvet

My longing rises, body remembering our secret

I was ready for love to become corporeal

Not just a girl's dream of things ethereal.

~

In that dark room, he was a riddled enigma

And I was afraid, yearning, wary of the stigma

Following his lead through the heady new labyrinth

Spring, the breeze scenting my memories with hyacinth.

~

Now, here's this song, stirring emotion

Reminding me of days of devotion

Days of girlish dreams, longings, and love

That, one by one, I learned to let go of.

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But, in his way, I feel he loved me

Not enough, but love has no guarantee

Still, strains of rock and words of Genesis

Reminds me of the boy and his passionate gentleness.

~~~

This was written as a response to Randy Baker's unofficial February Challenge, and contains all 7 words he gave as a prompt. Only six were required, but, as I did not do in high school, I figured I would go all the way and use all 7.

Thank you for the prompt Randy, and thank you Neil Diamond for the nudge I needed, Phil Collins for the remembered drum beat that day, and a certain Nobel Prize winner for leaving such a fond spot in my heart.

Comments welcomed