LINGERING MEMORIES

LINGERING MEMORIES


So many years have rolled by,
Your memory lingers.
Forever you’re in my heart,
Now it is but cinders.

Once I too sang songs of joy
And love was my refrain.
Those days are gone forever,
Not to return again.

You are alive in my songs;
Your thoughts are all around.
Through my poetry once more
Your company I’ve found.

You linger in my poems
And in their wailing tune,
As I call you through dark nights
Bereft of stars or moon.



* Written in abcb 7-6-7-6 format
* Initially written as entry no. 371325 in the book MY POETRY BOOK, "MY POETRY BOOK" . Posted as the present item on 29 October 2008.


M C Gupta
7 September 2005