Love Poem: Gone But Unforgotten
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Written by: Andreas Akun

Gone But Unforgotten

I will never be ready even though you signal your leaving
I foolishly keep the bright days since so much yet needs sharing
of long partings after our intense then rare meetings
of wild childhood stories and unfathomable blur future waiting
nowhere we could ever imagine even truly existing.

The beauty of the freely crystalized future has then come true
with your unchanging care and simple soul in skillful gesture of true blue.

You know I love you so much even in my silence 
I know you’re now gone, but forever unforgotten, 
Wishing you were here, silently cheer our encounters often
even if I know much of your pain and sometimes helplessness stands
in the face of bitter destiny, we all struggle to walk away, to just be gone.

But we can’t lie that time to bodily part will come anon, perhaps this afternoon breeze
just in time to forget our worries, but to thankfully remember our sweet memories
of how much I love you… 
And I will always do
in the deep ocean of true blue.
                                                                                      (28 October 2022)