Do You Remember? Poem by Mark Heathcote

Do you remember desert roads?
A taper of lights - disappearing
Into the starlit - desolate night.

Do you remember Oceans of Love?
A frozen iceberg's melting
Without even perching for a dove.
 
Do you remember Passion Fires?
A phoenix hatches by your side.
When your heart burns like a pyre.

Do you remember how I loved you?
And in secret silence, you love me too.
Do you remember drowning in my eyes?

When I spilt an unwritten tear for you
Do you remember breaking my spine-
Severing it, me from its glue.

And reading me cover-to-cover
Bookmarking me
As darling, I did you.

Do you remember?
Do you remember?
Do you remember why, for me, no one else will do?