Stopping Time

Today
Getting ready to sleep
I remember:

Sitting in a restaurant.
Talking with you.

I was recounting
The fond memory of a love gone by
And nearly shed a tear.

You reached out and took my hand.

A moment of tenderness.
"Thank you", I said.

You brought me back
To the restarurant
From the memory
Of my lover's sleeping embrace.

I see your hand clasp
Frozen in time.
And welcome the tenderness
Of that instant.

I look through it
To the earlier moment
Also frozen in time:

My lover and I
One or the other of us
Wakes a bit
And cuddles in closer.

I pray to God
There'll be another
Who does that too.

Until then
Two tender moments
Frozen in time.
Thank you.


	18 January 2000 revised 20 August 2000
	by Bill Cattey
	Notes on this poem.

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