Ashes in the Wind

poem by: Gerry Legister
Written on Feb 22, 2019

Inside, I am the force of a radiant flow,
the energy by fuel in soft eternal glow.
I am the receiving embers sparked by you,
First, a stranger till the flames then grew.

Into a light shining at the touch of dawn,
By moonlight hue, to you my heart was drawn,
To a faraway Island so welcoming and warm,
First, I thought you wanted to do me harm.

Darkness charmed her weaving barren twirl,
With ancient spirit world clinging to my soul.
Voices come and go by the guardians of dreams, 
In the winds of enchantment and illusions. 

Then the morning glory overturn the gloom,
Like the heavenly rapture of mid-afternoon,
A romance with you in my happy journal wrote,
The passing of times had a special antidote.

With the lust, we dust though scarlet tinged,
And the thread of love began to come unhinged,
Rainy clouds arrived, and filled your eyes,
extinguishing bright hopes of twilight skies.

With the clones of night mute shadows fall,
and I had no strength to tear down the wall.
By midnight all the energy and light had fled
Leaving the warm ashes smouldering instead.

Beautiful and delicate scattered in the wind 
A flurry of kisses nestled anew in my mind.
With pains that ache, all things held its peace, 
Till the sting of loss found comfort release. 

You almost left me dead, as the ashes scatter 
and should your ghostly frame, again reappear,
I’ve vowed to surrender at length to the future 
The pool of memories intrinsically left over.

 

Tags: Love, Pain, Hope, Imagery, Deep,

 

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