Love Poetry: Click

by david goodwin
(victorville, ca.-usa)

'I possess a snapshot of you
in the camera of my mind,
you would've allowed me that courtesy
it's the best print you could find.

You were standing alone in my garden
and we both were on the same page,
the only negativity
were the flowers' jealous rage.

Often times, I take a look at you
and I can see inside your heart,
where I feel your dissappointments
and the rain begins to start.

But, the two of us just laugh aloud
and we run down to the sea,
where each of us dives in, and swims
'til the undertow sets us, free;

and after midnight, in my heart
I find the courage with which to say,
"Let me wrap a throw around you
then, we'll find some place to lay."

For, time and again I've held you near me
and wondered, if you've known,
that how I hold you near me
is not exactly shown.

So, I begin to show you
too pale, in the nights' moonlight,
I pause to take another snapshot
but, the exposure isn't right;

and, to both of our own wonderments
we each, marvel at the grace,
the camera, gave up...so, willingly
when I was allowed, to "click" your face.'