Farewell the Beauty Of

She be like the best of rose
     which is not recalled by name,
Cool as ice yet warmed by scent
     that sets tortured hearts aflame.
Distant like the furthest star
     twinkling late into the night;
Somehow lost to morning’s sun
     yet still held within your sight.

Never truer words are spoke
     than to say nothing at all
When passing the master’s brush
     over pictures on the wall.
She’ll be kept for years to come,
     handed down the lines of time;
Lingering from thoughts of youth
     in that “she had once been mine”.

Out of an autumn’s fever
     she’ll come rambling into view,
Unchanged since those days gone by
     when she did but just pass through.
Somewhere in those memories
     that await the coming spring,
Hope has been chained to the soul
     which suffers for ev’rything.

Yesterday is now an age
     lost upon the grounds that burn,
Well before that bridge too far
     stands the point of no return.
Remember her one last time
     as the light fades o’er the rise;
Only Heaven truly knows
     where it is the beauty lies.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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