Poetry | Music

Rivers Hold The Secrets Of Infinity

Joni Mitchell — River

A piano twinkles. Notes repeating softly, drip like water falling from my fingertips landing on the rocks below echoing the end of love.

I see you in my skin. My lonely heart holds the memories in the membranes of our love.

I see you in the flick. of my paddle as drops of water fly across into the sea. The notes descend in minor keys and whisper deepest longings to the past.

I see you as I lift my cup with trembling hands and trace the tiny roses of the pattern painted there. We toasted to our love dipping for the liquid from the depths of the stream.

I see you in our footsteps as I trace them with my own. Passing by a doorway I hear you in the music, glance inside to see you in the corner of his smile.

I inhale and smell you in the dust in the pages of my book.

This love of my lifetime is forever a condition of my heart, when I search for secrets of infinity as they sit inside the songs.

A Poem about my favorite song, Rain, by Joni Mitchell. Thank you for this challenge by Sydney J. Shipp.

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