Dimmer

Bitterness grays, as the years dwindle down Time chips away and memories fade Time,...slips away, nibbling at grief and years, without mercy, is also a thief My vision of you is harder to see, And try as I might,...it burns all the leaves Your beautiful face, the fire of you, Only flashes of amber.......there is only a hue I can't view the picture as clearly I did I can't turn it on like a light in my head It burns, lowly, dimly...just a flicker, instead I once knew your voice and the warmth of your smile Now there's barely a whisper in the dark of the night I try to reach out, and grab it somehow But it cools into embers, and memory fails Like a photograph lost, where it doesn't belong Fading each day, in the sun for too long Fading and losing the bright flame I knew I ponder the embers that have died in the flame And I wonder, and worry, it comes like a pain ......,will I know you, will you recognize me if somewhere beyond, we meet once again? ____________________________________________