If For Only Today

By John Blase | July 31, 2014 |

I’ll give you my romance

when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Until then I’ll continue to be swept away

by the existence of tacos

and the drip of summer rain from the downspout

and the fact that Robert Wells wrote the words

while Jack Segal wrote the tune then

Tony Bennett took both and sang

When Joanna Loved Me.

Then there’s that moment you see someone you love,

someone you haven’t seen for too long now, and

the happiness you feel hurts, causing you to choke

and swear you’ll visit more often.

Yes, if I were to write of all the romance

in this life even the world itself could not contain all those books.

But I have poemed this much in the hope

that you might pause and if for only today, believe.

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