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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