Love Waits Poem by Suzanne Hayasaki

Love waits in a sunny place
Somewhere deep in your soul
For you to fight your way
Through your own gloom
And remember the path back
To that day with that one person,
A friend, a husband, an old flame,
When you felt fully accepted as yourself.

Love sits in an easy chair
In a familiar room
Looking through photo albums
Of you smiling from your eyes
Relaxed in the shadow
Of someone taller, wiser
Mother, father, older brother
Who you used to adore unabashedly.

Love wanders through a forest
Where flowers bloom in the shade
And a single path leads to a stream
Where you used to laugh and splash
With friends whose names you can barely remember
But whose faces, as brown and lineless as your own,
Appear in your dreams, the kind where you can fly!

Love dances in the clouds
Sending shadows gliding over green lawns
Reminding you of ones who are gone
But whose presence you sense
In the sun suddenly warm on your face
Or the breeze lifting your hair
Or even the tiniest of raindrops
Dappling your shoulders
Drawing you out of your thoughts
And into the world
Reminding you that if you have battles to fight
They are on your side.

Love is ever present
In our memories
If we can pull back our focus
From whatever is obsessing us
And remember better times.