POETRY/THIS ROOM

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Pleasing Poetry * HEAVEN SWEPT
* PLAY OF LOVE
* I AM HERE
* THIS ROOM
* TWENTY YEARS GONE
* TIL DEATH DO US PART
* DAUNTLESS DISGRACE
* THE AGED

"This Room" by: Gayla L. Pledger
( � copyright - Gayla L. Pledger )
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

I now can rest in the vision of what used to be,
While darkness cradles your ghost all about me;
Wrapped in the blissful arms of countless tears gone by ~~
Agony's storm has passed, leaving but a yearning sigh.

The sweet scent of your body is as present as the air,
Calling ancient memories to rise and dance with your ladyfair ~~
Weightlessly, two spirits drift about this room,
Like the mystical enchantment of an elegant perfume.

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Music plays, but no one can hear,
The tune of our bodies entwined in this invisible atmosphere ~~
Your breath spilling upon my skin like a gentle breeze,
Whispering across wind chimes, moaning passionately to please.

And I will rub the fragrance of your memory on my skin;
The beads of sweat remembering where I've been ~~
My own hands replacing your once wanton touch,
With but a few remnants of you to remind me of such.

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How my heart aches for the love slipped away ~~
Knowing our journey would be different if we first met today;
But the forest between us offers no path to lead you here,
So I must comfort myself with the trinkets of yester-year.

Winner of the Editor's Choice Award 1997
The National Library of Poetry.
Appeared in the anthology:
~ Through The Looking Glass ~

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