The Touch Of Love Again Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When this day began...
I felt sentimental.
Just last night I spent,
Dreaming...
Of you!
And,
Needs released.
So real and believed.

When this day began...
Promises I made,
Never...
To keep myself away,
From showing...
Without you,
I am more complete.
Promises like this,
I can not keep.

Foolish I have been.
Pretending I could end,
My need to love...
And dismisss it.

Foolish I have been.
Pretending I could end,
A loneliness I wish would leave.
But with each dawn,
It awakens me.

When this day began...
Promises I made,
Never...
To keep myself away,
From showing...
Without you,
I am more complete.
Promises like this,
I can not keep.

Since I could never be...
I see,
Alone.

I could never be,
I see...
Someone alone,
Who yearns...
To feel and know,
The touch of love again.