Faces Along the Way

Life is but a winding road Filled with faces along the way Coming in and out of your life Coloring your every day Yet most spend just a moment A fleeting glimpse before your eyes They giveth not and taketh not And cause you barely a rise And some stay just a moment Earning a thought upon your mind Triggers for countless memories These are the most common kind And fewer still stay even longer And commune with you a while Leaving behind dearest memoirs Of sweet tears or a special smile And rarer still those faces grand Building mansions in your soul These are the faces of a lifetime Whose virtue you do extol And know that you simply are A feature filled soiree A portrait in collage Of the faces along the way