Because of You

Memory slips away In that strange forgetfulness Only faint pictures float In my distant horizon And when I try to find Only tinctures blindly tell Odd that I should know this Sad glimpses of old times gone Each stray thought brings odd hints Only fragments that taunt me Mind in a myriad fling Heart roped to broken fragments Knowing in my old heart Romance of times lost in mists Yet still clutching old times To old memories once wild Can it be just because Life in oak casts mellow fine Just like that old China Porcelain where cracked ripples show Vintage of an odd time Where sunlit seaside trysts meet Yes the perfumed garden Where delight lodged mystery And there for the first time Fate decreed our love affair Now age and ageing grips On the verge of a new trip Come my darling dearest Here we can go home with glee Leon Enriquez 08 February 2019 Singapore