Sweetheart, you were here again last night, <br />in yet another happy dream about you and me, <br />or, so I thought, until I learned a bitter lesson... <br /> <br />I saw you standing by an open kitchen window, <br />just seven feet away, in that cute strapless blouse, <br />so innocently showing me your lovely shoulders... <br /> <br />Delightfully surprised, and drawn by irresistible <br />forces, I desperately wanted to touch again <br />those beautiful silken shoulders, as in the past... <br /> <br />I never had to beg you for a hug and kiss <br />whenever I longed for intimacy with you... <br />'So, why not now again? ', I asked myself. <br /> <br />When I reached out to touch you, darling, <br />my eager fingertips felt nothing..., nothing... <br />I saw your shape, your face, your smile... <br /> <br />This time, however you were different, <br />transparent, insubstantial, although you <br />still smiled at me like in previous dreams... <br /> <br />Then, suddenly you disappeared, and <br />left me cringing, crying on my knees, <br />'My God, what have I done to her? ? ' <br /> <br />Have You been sending me her spirit <br />to lovingly, responsively touch mine, <br />but never to be physically approached? <br /> <br />My human longings and wild imagination <br />must yield to patience, gained in prayer, <br />before I'll see her blessed soul again... <br />Amen. <br /> <br />July 23,2006<br /><br />Willem VanVoorthuysen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/untouchable-now/
