Within my heart, I swore to ne’er forget
your secret laugh, a sultry serenade
nor mystic mem’ry of your silhouette
when moved to wade in midnight’s river glade.
Within my mind, I swore to always keep
the mem’ry of your kindness bathed in hues,
pastoral rose, bright blue and golden deep
though missing you is colorless like dew.
And though the scythe is sharp against my heart
to harvest sorrow from me day and night
I know remains the stubble to restart
my life without your love and brightest light.
But first I must regain my will to breathe,
the glaze of loss has brought me to my knees.
You reached in to places that are trying ever slowly to heal and tugged at the scabs to remind me of the wounds that remain.