What Moment Gave Time Meaning

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What Moment Gave Time Meaning

By: Husam (Sam) Salman

Love runs by like

A river in springtime,
But lust always runs away –

Never looking back,

He’s too busy thinking of himself,

He notches his belt…yet again.

What do you hold onto,

Through time

And what have you

Used this time for,
This borrowed time,

This time

That is never ours,

Especially when we wanted it

most?

I held you close

Naked – our bodies

Finally beating

Tribal drum,

Our rhythm rocked -

The room,

Our souls,

The night

Away.

You held me after

With tender touch

And wantons edge.

Me

Desperate to hold

Onto that moment,

Forever….for soon

It will be gone,

…Again...

I must seem like a freak in

Those precious moments,
Holding you like

You’ve been gone for years

(I barely even know you)

And that I’m afraid I

May never see you

Again…

Because I know - once it's lost,

It’s lost

That some’thing’…we will never get it back

Again.

In the den of harmony

In the cradling arms of

That tender moment

I thrive

My existence,

Though seemingly fleeting,

Cherished life

In the new dawn – hope

Remains on my agenda

But it rarely sticks to schedules

You can understand the challenges

There

Don’t let those moments

Go untouched

Through professions of

Love

Through the body,

The soul

Today

Ours is the only fire that

Burns bright,

Tomorrow perhaps lingers

As fading embers

Or

Even nothing at all.

So don’t be afraid to

Be

And say

What you really

Feel

Who knows right? -

Here today

Gone…. tomorrow?