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TITLE: Did I Tell You? | Previous Challenge Entry
By Linda Watson Owen
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Did I tell you
how my mind searched in the farthest places for you?
I looked through windows of wonder
and doors of daring.
I ran through halls of heroes and tunnels of theory.
My mind came back full,
but sunset found me empty.
I could not find you there.
Did I ever tell you
how my heart searched the deepest places
for you?
I felt the warmth of worldly wisdom in a woman’s voice,
I leaned into man’s measure of kingdoms and power.
I spoke with convenient friends and drank their wine.
And my heart felt full until sunrise found me
empty.
Did I tell you
that I could not find you there?
My body searched for you.
With open arms flailing like a blind man’s,
I searched for your hand, your face,
your golden face
that feels like sun warmed blossoms and
a parent’s breath of being.
I found only where you might have been
or never was.
You were not there.
Did I ever tell you how I searched?
I looked for you.
I looked in music’s chords of voices calling,
in framed brushstrokes hanging mute on willing walls,
I looked in laughter’s embrace
and in sorrow’s sighs,
but you were not there.
I must have told you.
Did I never tell you?
It all disappeared when I stopped looking,
stopped searching,
when I
stopped.
* * *
then
My heart knew first
when the current of your presence whispered.
My body followed
when the warmth of paradise paraded in,
and
my mind awakened to the sunrise of
your song.
Did I tell you how it felt to be found,
there in the silence,
in the stillness of surrender,
as you knelt, reaching to envelope me
in your smiling wholeness.
Did I tell you how it felt to be surprised
by
Love?
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What a privledge to read such work - this is awesome!
Just so awesome!
Thank you, too, for taking time to read and leave a comment on my entry. Now I appreciate it even more, knowing it comes from such a delightful writer as you are.
When I read something so insightful and moving, it leaves me speechless. I love that!
--You are an artist!--
This is reminiscent of that beautiful poem "The Hound of Heaven".