I No Longer Poem by Jessmyn Bergemann

I no longer wear the ring on my finger
The one attached to my left hand
I no longer expect your face
Where my head softly used to land

I'm playful and myself again
Knowing my place in this world
Smiles lighting my face with a constant thought
Allowing the dreamer to become unfurled

Gracfully flowing through music
Like the blood that fill my veins
Melodic peacfullness beats my heart
Spirtitful ackwardness successfully regains

Come to me I am allowed to call
As I stand in this meadow green
Fall at my feet with the turning leaves
My eagerness so peacful and serene.

Lift me up to the spirit clouds
Allow me to dance with love
Show me how to breathe again
Floating innocense calming from above

Catch me if I fall again
In a loving, tender embrace
Let me focus not on your words
But the moment lost in your face

Let me kiss your lips so tender
When your fingers lace my hair
Do not utter a word to me
The words I cannot bare

Let me lose myself in inspiration
Take the moment for what it is
I no longer wear the ring on my finger
Let me lose myself in this bliss

I am yet a shell of life
Exuberating this ghastly past
Lay me in your meadow so sweetly
While I remember the words of At Last

Gently trace my curves so tender
Again with your finger tips
Love my neck with your mouth
My eyes, nose, face and lips

Wake me not from this dream
Where I am myself in your eyes
I no longer wear the ring on my finger
Myself I shall not comprimise

Search me with your need for love
Allow me to arch my back
Toss my insecurities to the wind
It was the attention I did lack

Remind me of how gentle
A man can truely, honestly be
Let me taste you forever
But my future in you I do not see

Loudness of a source does sound
My eyes open to see what I do not find
Tears spill from my eyes to my pillow
The dreampt fairytale in this mornings time

I no longer wear thie ring on my finger
The one attached to my left hand
I no longer expect your face
Wear last night my head softly did land


(JKB/October 16,2007)