One True Love 2

I


The wind can blow my mind away

Into the pain of reflection,

And each mote

Is a memory

That I cannot brush

From my face.

Each drop will not evaporate

From recollection.

I turn my face,

Only to have the wind

Whisper in my ears

And lash my face

With my own hair

And moan,

“Remember,

Remember,

Remember . . . .”

 
"I"("The wind can blow my mind away") was first published in the self-published booklet Memento, 1976.  It is a free verse poem reflective of the persona's devastation at the loss of his one true love.  I knew that I would never love anyone else in the same way with a commitment to raising a family; I was also aware that since my children had been taken 3,000 miles away, I would not have a parent-child relationship with them.

The drawings are original and went with each poem in Memento.  They were originally drawn by hand, but I have replicated them on the computer and some have changed slightly.
 
One of my favorite books of free verse love poetry is This Is My Beloved by Walter Benton.
 
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