shazbat

Dec 22, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Kiss me there

Take me to where we started

The place where our love begun

To the oak tree by the river

In the light of the setting sun

Lay me down in the green grass

And wait till the stars shine through

Hold me tightly in your arms

As though our love was new

I’ll be leaving for another place

But I want you to believe

I will love you till forever

So try hard not to grieve

I will be at peace and happy

This love we will always share

So, take me to where we started

Hold me, and kiss me there.

— shazbat, Dec 22, 2008

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

Critiques

Kailashana

17 years 5 months ago

Lovely love poem…Kiss me

Lovely love poem... Kiss me there... where you begin and I end... ~A "Speech is blasphemy. Silence a lie. Above speech and silence is a way out." I-tuan.

shazbat

17 years 5 months ago

Thank you very much young

Thank you very much young lady, Regards John

Kailashana

17 years 5 months ago

Honey… that’s sweet but

Honey... that's sweet but my grandson is 20. So that makes me as old as dirt. lol. ~A "Speech is blasphemy. Silence a lie. Above speech and silence is a way out." I-tuan.

shazbat

17 years 5 months ago

In which case, I’m old

In which case, I'm old enough to be your brother. Remember you're only as old as you feel. I feel like a teenager but my wife says I'm not allowed, (I know thats corny but I like it.) John

Robert Melliard

17 years 5 months ago

Hi John

This is more serious and emotional than the other poems of yours that I have read. So you're not just a jester after all! Perhaps there is material for a song here. Best Wishes, Robert.

shazbat

17 years 5 months ago

This is as near as dammit a true story that involved two people very close to me, one of them had a terminal illness with only a short time to live.I drove them to where they first met as schoolkids and waited for them for nearly 2 hours as they just sat and hugged each other till the sun went down. They had been married for a long time, the wife died a few weeks after their 50th anniversary. Regards John

Robert Melliard

17 years 5 months ago

Your last comment

This last comment is almost as moving as the poem itself... By the way, I have just noticed that 'begun' should be 'began', but then, of course, it wouldn't rhyme with 'sun'. Best Wishes, Robert.

shazbat

17 years 5 months ago

shhh dont let everyone know,

shhh dont let everyone know, sometimes we have to cheat a little, dont we? Have just read your short story, hope you are well now, i always thought Thailand was fairly safe, obviously not, think I'll be sticking to a long weekend in a caravan at Margate next year. Regards John

Robert Melliard

17 years 5 months ago

Hi Shazbat - re- my short story

As if Bangkok hadn't been bad enough, I think the psychiatrists here in Spain who couldn't believe my story made things worse, because of all the medication they prescribed. Recently I saw a B.B.C. documentary about how three eminent psychiatrists observed ten people for three days in order to try to work out who was nuts and who wasn't (five of those people had mental illnesses). When they pronounced their verdict they made several mistakes. So I too may have been misdiagnosed. I actually stopped taking my ghastly pills three months ago (without telling anyone) and have been feeling much better ever since. I rest my case. Best Wishes and Merry Christmas, Robert.

Kailashana

17 years 5 months ago

U can attest to that

I can attest to that Robert... my father was bi-polar (they called it manic depression in those days). He was on many dangerous drugs... all the "enes", How he managed to go to work (sometimes two jobs) for over 30 odd years on those meds is still beyond me. As a caregiver these last two years, I have seen the effects of many drugs on the elderly, especially the ones prescribed to keep them from going to the bathroom at night (and so disturb the nurses, etc.). If I had more clinical background I could write a book... but my background has been in the business world most recently as a Realtor and prior to that, mortgage loan officer... that's another book. Suffice it to say the money lenders and the drug companies SHOULD be sued...and shamed... And all those who are and have been complicit.... In general, we all have caused the circumstances of life as it now appears by our desire to have it all, and not experience any of the downside of life... which we as poets... know too well. Peace. Anna p.s. he made psychiatric journals because there was no drug that *arrested or ameliorated the symptoms for long...and his manic side was more evident, his depressed side was never suicidal. "Speech is blasphemy. Silence a lie. Above speech and silence is a way out." I-tuan.

Robert Melliard

17 years 5 months ago

Hi Anna

That's very interesting information. I was also diagnosed as bi-polar at one point, just because I went on a spending spree after my internment in a mental hospital for acute depression. (The main reason I was depressed was because no one believed my experience in Thailand had been real - not even my wife! See my very short story, called 'Thai Rack', on this blog.) All I wanted to do by splashing out was to enjoy life as much as possible in order to make up for having been miserable for several weeks in hospital, which I think was quite a reasonable reaction. I'm gradually persuading my psychiatrist that I'm O.K., though he is reluctant to admit that a mistake may have been made. I guess he feels obliged to support his colleagues - the ones who made the original diagnosis. Thanks for your comment. Best Wishes and Merry Christmas, Robert.

shazbat

17 years 5 months ago

Ihave had a lot of dealings

Ihave had a lot of dealings with psychiatrists over a 20 year period, my ex wife was a patient on and off over that period, it took 15 years before they finally diagnosed bi polar, I'm not sure if it was the treatment she recieved but she went on to develop paranoid schizophrenia and could be quite dangerous at times. The only plus side to her illness was her OCD which meant that the house and garden were always spotless. I never saw the programme in question but there was a discussion about it on radio 4 and it seems that roughly half of the population would be diagnosed with some form of mental illness under similar circumstances. Anyway, glad you are feeling better and hope you are back to your old self very soon. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Regards John