HAVE I REALLY LOST YOU?

I used to feel you, your arms around me, Your breath in my hair.

I believe that I actually felt the touch of your love! It was tangible.

It was unfathomable.

Your love was the look in your eyes as you led me. It was in your voice.

It was sweet and kind and beautiful! I saw that love many times.

I saw it manifested through tears. It was there.... there in your scarred hands.

The welts on your back screamed LOVE! Your love had no restraints, ever.

When those hands reached out to touch, Indelible fingerprints were left on the soft tissue of a heart.

Can you hear love? I have heard it, I heard it when you called my name.

I heard it in your footsteps As you searched the garden of my heart looking for me, wanting to commune with me.

I heard it as you whispered encouragement in my ear.

I heard your love calling from afar As I walked away from you in my brokenness.

I close my eyes and remember. I picture a day when we will again be together.

I weep thinking of the distance I have put between us. How far did I run? How can I find you?

Then, the whispers again... My imagination? I open my eyes And You are there!

You are so close I could touch you! How can this be when I had gone so far away?

There is no distance that is too far for your love. I stare at you in awe.

I wonder if there is a chance to be new again?

And then those arms...they embrace me as if I am a found treasure! I had felt ... no worth in me...an outcast...and yet you still call me “daughter.” Have I lost you?

Yes, maybe I did, But your love found me.

-Montie

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