∫ Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 ∫

Do you know …
My introduction to:
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2
forever branded my memories?

Its haunting melody
ushers
indelible snippets
of recollections,
as if it were
only yesterday.

Seared in my heart
memories of
your gentle
and loving touch,
your brilliant smile,
your wicked sense of humor
and your melt-me
blue – blue
eyes.

We were
impassioned lovers
wrestled as one.
I loved you then,
and still,
part of me
loves you now.

Perhaps …
I am only in love
with the memories.

Our choices were made,
our fates forever sealed.

Then,
why do memories
continue
stalking me?
Enough time has passed!

According to Divine plan,
filled with unforeseen
blessings,
our lives traveled
separate ways …
as they should have

Yet,
I wonder
when you listen to this piece
of melodious music,
do you think of me?
Does it ever return you
to forbidden times?
The times when we
were both much younger,
when we needed no one
but ourselves,
and making love
was just for fun.
Ahh, those days are gone,
Still,
with
tenacity,
the memories
linger.

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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011

Each week Carry On Tuesday will publish either a famous quotation or a line from a book, song or poem and invite you to Carry On where words stop. You may use some of the words or all of them either at the start of your piece or within the body of your work.

Carry On Tuesday #133

“When Rachmaninov wrote his second piano concerto in 1901, he could never have imagined that  one day his melody would become one of the best known pop ballads of all time. This week I offer you the opening four lines of All By Myself

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Note:  Rather than utilizing this prompt from the Pop Ballad side – I chose to use the language of the music as the center as this piece.

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