All This Dreaming

I inhaled the sweet

Fragrance of your hair

But I inhaled too deeply

Till nothing else was there

But a memory

Now when I close my eyes

I conjure up the days

Before I realized

That you could slip away

Oh how I loved you then

Maybe you didn’t know

That time and time again

It made my life worthwhile

Just to hold you

My sweet darling

If you could only see

How I see you

And the enormity

Of the feelings

That I feel on the days

You come along

To visit me this way

The air just sparkles

With every memory

Of you and I

It feels electric

To sit and dream and sigh

As I imagine

That I can still breathe in

Your fragrant hair

Then baby once again

My broken heart

Rushes to my eyes

It hurts so badly

When I come to realize

That no matter

How I reach out for you

My arms are empty

And all this dreaming

Just won’t do

©️Kay Salady

Poetess, Kay Salady

Invincible

I was invincible
Now I am dispensable
Adhering to the principles
That tender youth refused
My love is far away from me
And all that I had dreamed to be
Is but a fleeting memory
That I can scarce recall
A window near a closing door
I had climbed through
Before the floor had fallen
Had led me to an open space
Where my path could be retraced
And I could ponder once again
The inner child from deep within
Reaching out for one more limb
Before she takes the fall
In earnest after all
These years

©Kay Salady

Conflicted

I think of all that it could be
To lie with him so close to me
To feel his lips upon my skin
Tasting me yet once again
My fingertips outline the face
Of one whom I long to embrace
Through endless nights in solitude
I see his eyes beneath a moon
That we would share had I said yes
Yet I suffer to digress
Away from love for fear of pain
Now I am standing in the rain
When sunlight falls upon the man
Who reaches out to take my hand
As I stand trembling all alone
Wanting him to take me home
Yet once again I answer no
I am conflicted even though
I love him

©Kay Salady