{"id":1051,"date":"2016-07-26T00:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2016-07-26T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:31:46","slug":"the-dance-of-lumbering-pines-with-texas-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2016\/07\/26\/the-dance-of-lumbering-pines-with-texas-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dance of Lumbering Pines with Texas Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

A time long ago my heart was miserably in need of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I truly pined in my heart as we Texans are often opt to do, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart had been deeded yours so it sought what was gone, <\/span><\/p>\n

A perplexity of magnitude for a heart longing of the forgone, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As the breeze moves the large pines I too am moved in my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

I close my eyes to find Texas in my heart and the girl I left behind,<\/span><\/p>\n

In Texas it is common to watch wind dance with lumbering pines, <\/span><\/p>\n

Soft Panhandle breezes whisper your name as hard wind declines, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve heard the whistle of Cowboys passed on as you walked by, <\/span><\/p>\n

So many sounds orchestrated across the plains under our sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I recall the days of recall and loneliness so intense I’d cry, <\/span><\/p>\n

Stricken with fear my first week of combat was hard I won’t deny, <\/span><\/p>\n

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And I struggled, I struggled with fear and finding courage to react, <\/span><\/p>\n

I struggled to remember everything you as I questioned it an act, <\/span><\/p>\n

Did you show love or a fascination to have the flirtatious boy at last, <\/span><\/p>\n

I trembled in fear that you owned my heart and forgot me too fast, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I had orders with leave to return to you before my arduous task, <\/span><\/p>\n

For what I was trained is nothing to celebrate if you should ask, <\/span><\/p>\n

Had, you moved on with no trace or imprint of me upon your heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

At month five as Christmas drew near I was truthfully falling apart, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Typed beginnings of letters unsent were letters of forlorn sadness, <\/span><\/p>\n

Piled around a trash basket everything here and within me a mess, <\/span><\/p>\n

Letters of unsent repent is a position I never dreamed to ever be in, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m typing letters begging to hear from you and to exist as a friend, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Tears escape my eyes and the pain of heartbreak is throttling breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

How I feared I had lost you before the words locking us until death, <\/span><\/p>\n

Unknown to you I had made the vow to love you forever from a kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n

I felt I stood upon the cliff’s edge but a heartbeat and word from bliss, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I have suffered defeat at our enemies hands as well as total humiliation, <\/span><\/p>\n

Returned home empty of your love and totally rejected by our nation, <\/span><\/p>\n

I have endured for you from one end of the earth to another far away, <\/span><\/p>\n

Each due, man or soldier has known for centuries, I have had to pay, <\/span><\/p>\n

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And in my final chapter I have found more fear and question than before, <\/span><\/p>\n

Is the equity of my heart in yours of worth or am I truly rust and no more, <\/span><\/p>\n

What time is left may be but a day unless my will to fight on remains, <\/span><\/p>\n

Today may be the script of final word if measured by recent new pains, <\/span><\/p>\n

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In absence I have wept in review of my past sins against all I have known, <\/span><\/p>\n

Truly I love life and mankind, yet I feed of pain, unmeasurable pain I own, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I stand please watch, as I walk please watch, anguish has come again, <\/span><\/p>\n

Morning has forgot to bring my new beginning yet for you I will again, begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat to Patti<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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