I ventured out on a transcendent journey to learn more of you,

Into a mystical enchanted place of uncharted waters I felt askew,

With no physical form to anchor my soul I flew into the unknown,

Flying untethered by physics I defied the laws of man we’ve known,

Will each star in the heavens welcome me home upon my return,

Once when drafted I was shunned by citizens to feel an odious burn,

Pray tell Ye of Creation that never again will I feel such painful slight,

It is now a century halved yet the memory haunts me every night,

Soon I entered a place I recognized yet I didn’t recall the place at all,  

Befuddled by my lack of memory I sought safety and a place to fall,

Where did I put the photograph I hold so dear? It will make things right,

As fast as I can think I saw snapshots of a misplaced sailor in the night,

In this place of familiarity I also see you through a dimensional peep,

I saw snapshots of you in deep worry while praying my life to keep,

The brokenness of your heart became overwhelmingly sad to me,

A small trickle has formed where teardrops dwell I am sorry to see,

Is my dark haired image of old embedded within your mind’s chamber,

Have I held you each night in your dreams far from this war’s danger,

While paying the draft boards due of forced slavery I wept at times,

For the loneliness of combat has no place while writing love rhymes,

It expands every emotion of love to such point it would surely burst,

Love is the answer to life’s dreams of which I have had a deep thirst,

To know true love is to know true heartache of which I am well versed,

Each morning upon waking thoughts of loving you always came first,

When found far from home for a year or more loneliness did reign,

Now through this dimensional foray I’ve journeyed to see your pain,

Love is revealed as I see from this journey you loved me as I did you,

From this revelation of truth my spirits soared just as high as I flew,

My journey of a lifetime has told me that loving you then was not in vain,

I’ve pulled away a particle of me that you will feel my love when in pain,

From the hourglass of my sand I’ve pulled away a fragment of my time,

It may seem insignificant but if you look hard you’ll find it’s my lifetime,

Oh sweet woman so beautiful say yes you’ll bare your breast for me,

At my life’s end I pray my every moment will be spent as your devotee,

Love is a heartache I knew well once upon a time when I was sent away,

To know you too endured the loneliness I felt is worth the pain of today,  

To find your presence in this unknown place I recognize sometimes,

I thought a miracle of fate until I saw us tethered by our love’s ley lines,

Wishing to comfort poor me I leaped through a dimensional boundary,

As I placed a particulate of my future into his heart I created a quandary,

When I touched his heart with love’s delight a sudden memory occurred,

Did I remember feeling suddenly better that night that now seems blurred,

I shortened my current existence by giving him the particle containing time,

Yet I now remember a burst of love one night that helped create this rhyme,

I have no need to travel the vastness of this place because you are here,

As I wrote my words of love on paper I recognized my creations so clear,

Every poem, rhyme and story written can be condensed into but a word,

They are attempts of assurance that my words of love for you are heard,

As I looked around in this place of magic I found answers I needed to know,

Came a whisper that said drink from the river of answers while in full flow,

But I only found answers to questions that created the questions anew,

Each time I departed it was an entry from the other side from which I flew,

Dimensional planes have no thickness yet they are too vast for one mind,

Best explained as a loop for time has no movement mankind will soon find,

As I exit to re-enter my lifetime fore and aft I can see where I stand today,

My fingers are placing digital ones and zeros to light up the iPad’s display,

I soon came upon a stranger that I recognized as being the future me,

When asked a question of how are you he said “open your eyes to see”,

He pointed with his finger directly at me and said “all of this is inside you,

The questions and answers are within you, look nearby you’ll find a clue”,

Tethered at my side not too far away lays my best friend and wife too,

Without loving you I would be empty with nothing for my fingers to do,

My best friend is my wife I’m happy to announce and to say it is true,

When I exit this dimension to enter the next I say “it will be loving you”.

The end, by Pat for Patti.

I love you baby.