The Memory of Love
written by: Alan Hardy
We lean in towards each other.
Side by side, we reach for the other’s feel
as on the other sides of us others sit.
They squeeze us together.
We rediscover warmth. Cheeriness.
Pleasure in public places.
I resuscitate what I felt years ago,
before all the tears, in the first faltering steps of romance,
shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, amazement
at the shudder of fabric on her body,
as she walks towards me, a smile lighting up
my memory of her, and others, further back,
before I knew her, shared with them the joy of embraces
in a room of people.
It’s nice to get out into the world,
experience the rawness of the two of us
gently nestling up to each other,
like a first date. The tentative steps towards love,
before eventually it would be forgotten,
superseded, no longer exist, till,
by going out, and sitting side by side,
the memory of it comes back.
- The Memory of Love - May 25, 2025
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