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Still I Look                                                    

Still,                                                                                                                                      I wait,                                                                                                                                    I looked for you among the forest that meets the sea,                                                               the tall wet pines. 

I thought I had seen you,
beside the fallen trees that have lived,
but have now given up their lives.

You were nowhere to be found,
along the jagged edges where the land meets the sea;
but I could not find you.

Oh my love,
where have you gone?
What has become of our love?
I will not stop searching for your precious being!

You are a part of me,
I have joined myself to you;
as long as I possess the breath of life,
I will search for you.

Come to me,
let us be together! 
My love has gone away!
Are you among the rocks that look out over the sea?
Can you be found in the deep, liquid waters below?

Sometimes I hear your voice calling,
calling my heart to you,
but I can not see you;
have you gone away?
Have you taken your love to a different place?

To have loved you is like the tall, wet, towering trees;
the leaves have fallen,
and now lay upon the breast of the earth.

I hope you are waiting for me,
beside the fallen trees that have given up their lives.

I will not give up my love for you!
I will live among the places where the forest meets the sea,
for this is where our love was conceived,
where our love for each other will forever remain.

Copyright © 2007 Mark Masters from his book, If I Were To Come to Your Shore, A Collection of Love Poems



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