{"id":1772,"date":"2022-07-18T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2022-08-14T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:49:15","slug":"this-love-for-you-i-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2022\/07\/18\/this-love-for-you-i-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"This Love for You I Carried"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often I wake from a dream with memories of a time long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n

I dreamed of when I held you tight as we danced ever so slow,<\/span><\/p>\n

Seldom do perfect moments arrive as given to us that night,<\/span><\/p>\n

Love kisses cleansed by teardrops shared erases any delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A year earlier I vowed to never leave love on the dance floor,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart made a promise to you before I left through the door,<\/span><\/p>\n

Molecules of love filled my veins as each beat made love flow,<\/span><\/p>\n

I pray that I can share with others this wonderful love we know,<\/span><\/p>\n

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So many young men other than me were also drafted to arms,<\/span><\/p>\n

Others had to leave true love with her beauty and her charms,<\/span><\/p>\n

Young love during that time knew cars, dances, music and war,<\/span><\/p>\n

Our parents knew war with one thing more, what they fought for,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I prayed for a miracle asking God that I\u2019d return home to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the journey was difficult and hard it\u2019s what I had to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

Prayer and dreams of you helped me cope with the evils I knew,<\/span><\/p>\n

Beatings and torture paved a path I would take to get to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The greatest treasure I\u2019ll ever own is a photograph of you I kept,<\/span><\/p>\n

During hardest of times I wrapped it in foil up my anus as I slept,<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I still have that treasure that amazingly was never soiled,<\/span><\/p>\n

A kind nurse once found it and framed it, of that I became spoiled,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I woke from surgery with your image smiling sweetly at me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Truly I must say it was the most beautiful thing I\u2019d ever see,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have made promises to you but all I\u2019ve managed to keep,<\/span><\/p>\n

After each dance I\u2019ve said \u201cI love you Patti, ever so deep\u201d,<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I was eighteen and you were fourteen I crawled in to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through another girls window I saw you there, I knew what to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

I had dreamed of you but had never met you, yet I still had to say,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, and I am going to marry you, I will marry you some day,<\/span><\/p>\n

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When discharged I promised to return in May to be with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

You graduated from high school and I did as I promised to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifty seven years I\u2019ve loved you and for fifty two we\u2019re married,<\/span><\/p>\n

Time has flown, but I know it\u2019s from all this love for you I carried.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, I love you my sweet angel. For Patti by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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