Holding Fast

Holding Fast
7/6/11
by Teri VanLieshout

I hold fast to    love, life, beauty
  I want to fold it up
Write it down
  Carry it with me

Like an old photograph
  with shining memories
  Of happy times
Stuffed in the corner of my
   mirror or wallet or  purse

I breathe you in
  and breathe you out
Memory and love
I feel you burst open
  inside

I cannot hold you
  you will not sit still
You run out and over
  spilling forward

 You are rich and warm
   Sunset explosion
 Here and gone
 
I marinade in
 your fragrance
   your touch
     your joy

And I remember
 and hold fast
   and smile.