My heart stops as our eyes meet,

I remember a lost love, so sweet.

Years ago, I belonged to you,

You’re smiling now, what’ll I do?

My mind says, ‘Run’, my heart says ‘stay’,

I always got weak, when you smiled that way.

You’re walking toward me, I feel tears,

It has been so long, so many years.

My feet like concrete, stuck to the floor,

This is it, I can’t run from you anymore.

Years flew by, but not fast enough,

I still remember your gentle touch.



‘Run Fast!’ My mind shouts,

‘Stay!’ My heart cries out.

You’re too close now, I can’t breathe,

Thinking to myself, ‘why didn’t I leave?’

The answer is simple, I still love you,

Should I say it, what should I do?

It doesn’t matter, as your hand touches mine,

That familiar feeling, our fingers intertwined.

Tears now running down my cheeks,

As once again, our two hearts meet.

You know me well, just like a book,

You know well my, ‘I still love you’ look.

You pull me close, your lips touch mine,

For just a minute, we’ve stopped time.

We pull away, I smile through tears,

What has it been, thirty years?

‘I still love you, you still take my breath away.’

I said it now, what will you do, what will you say?

I awoke with alarm, as my clock began to scream,

Tears streaming down my face, it was all just a dream.

©2007 Janice Jarnagin