Red Balloon Poem by Butch Decatoria

Remember when
every touch
with all its intention
was a kindness
Tender like our lips
at first kiss,
deeply
in one another's eyes

seeing with feelings
discovery past the weight
of fevered flesh,

a dervish flight
through those walls
layered with doubts as heavy
as the stones
we now turn our hearts into...

Remember when
every word
was lovingly spoken

uplifting wisdom
like feathers, wings:
the soft music of our mouths

when life is floating
lanterns
and we briefly are a/part
you still have me
soar...

When we are finally as one,
whole, a hearth warm,
and nude
those wet silences
become undulating music
the times we demure
our mouths still drinking, singing
instilling lessons
within depths: the heart's thirst

which only absolute certainty
calms and quenches...

keeps alight and so on
carrying on
knowing tomorrow will come
yet when I'm with you
I am new...
even in the dark
All stars are born.

Remember when
in the break of morning
when eyes open from trenchant sleep
(better than adrift or hollow)
remember how stunning the view

inhale surprised
to waking life's wonder, then
a/part as the wars pain and riot

fearlessly I say
depart and drink
the rain
freedom love
sky and eyes
will awake...

And if we have yet to meet
since I know
Truth and believe in Love,

when I fall for you
Thank all the heavens, vast
I fell for you
I will fall up...

Because I remember
now
it's you
Lovelyloving love
who fills my very cup

floating in the drink
of us.

(God how I love you.)