Tonight, Let's Remember Poem by Michael Burch
Tonight, Let's Remember
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight, let's remember, as mortals do,
how cutely we chortled when workdays were through—
society sated, all gods put to rest,
and you in my arms, and I at your breast...
Tonight, let's remember how daring, how free
the Madeira made us, recumbently.
Our inhibitions? —we laid them to rest.
Earth, heaven or hell—we knew we were blessed.
Tonight, let's remember these dwindling days
we've spent here together—the sun's rays
spending their power beyond somber hills.
Soon we'll rest together; there'll be no more bills.
Tonight, let's remember—we've paid all our dues,
we've suffered our sorrows, we've learned how to lose.
What's left now to take, only Heaven can tell.
Be with me above or its "bliss" will be hell!
I do not want God; I want to see you
free from all sorrow, your labor through,
a song on your tongue, a smile on your lips,
sweet, sultry and vagrant, a child at your hips,
laughing and beaming and ready to frolic
in a world free from cancer and gout and colic.
For you were courageous, and kind, and true.
There must be a heaven for someone like you.
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8/21/2025 4:15:49 AM # 1.0.0
After Annabelle Lee which is my favorite English language poem, I will place, with your permission " Tonight, Let's Remember" It is very seldom that one comes upon such a very well expressed, felt and written, love poem like this. Extremely unforgettable and tenderly moving. A poetic masterpiece that remains and enriches the spirit we all have, someplace, within.
Sandra, I am honored that you like my poem that much. You are welcome to share the poem, if you want to, as long as my name is attached. I'm a fan of " Annabelle Lee" and helped the founder of Romantics Quarterly get the journal going. Poe was one of the " blasts from the past" that the journal published. Poe was one of the more musical poets, and a gifted storyteller who reminds me of the ancient ballads that helped create English poetry as we think of it today.