Words Never Ending & Other Poems By Doug Tanoury
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Words Never Ending
A Wedding Wish For Stacey
I remember
There was a time once
In the smallness of new beginnings
Where every heartbeat brought new wonder
And each day uncomplicated joy
I wish these gifts of childhood to you
Just as I feel them now
As I see you flower like and
Wrapped in white blossoms
And in my chest this instant
Coursing through a cloverleaf
Of arteries and the figure eights
Of blood vessels
Intertwining and wrapping their way
About my heart like snakes on a caduceus
Is the sure and certain knowledge that only the
Pure certainty of love in us
Is undying and eternal
So it will be this moment
Here in this church
That will stay with us forever and you will
Hear me whispering for a lifetime
My lips endlessly forming these words
Just above a Bach concerto playing
Sweetly in the background
And you will remember
The little bits of us
That never die
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My shirts
In the laundry hamper,
Their arms folded across the chest
In the contrite pose of monks
Filing into vespers
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