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Autumn Apart
by +Steven Curtis Lance
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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"As I have life I have hope we could make new memories"


Autumn Apart

an die ferne Geliebte

I was wondering about you and if you remember
The way it was and how we felt another November
One which was so long ago now that it seems lost to me
Except for the haunted persistence of its memory

I was wondering about whether it persists in you
Or not the way it does in me and if it haunts you too

When the leaves are as they are and the stars are as they are
In this November like another one I remember
It makes me wonder about you and if in December
You will be alone as I am alone with leaf and star

And the haunted persistence of the memory of what
The haunted persistence of memory never forgot

As I have life I have hope we could make new memories
However separated we might be
Completing a circle with stars and leaves with things like these
And things only experience can see

The way we see too late how love is indivisible
And how the cruelest walls of all are invisible

I was wondering about you and dreaming about you
You say you are real and I have no reason to doubt you
And I guess it is only an effect of poverty
Not being able to travel as we would like to do

An effect of fear too if you are anything like me
Which keeps us apart missing each other as I miss you

The question is only when not whether
Our day will come to be lived out
We are predestined to be together
Real and without reason to doubt

And until we are together a star
Shines in memory of the millions of
The stars and leaves of November to seal and say my love
Belongs to you exclusively

I wonder if you wonder about me

+Steven Curtis Lance



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Reviewed by Peter Schlosser 11/24/2009
Beautiful romantic prose. Outstanding!!


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