Footprints

Time washes all that memories contain Still, loss of love remembered can stay The years of regret silently remain Their binding ribbons of sadness inlaid Love for another a heart can betray Leave footprints in the bent grass by love's weight The imprints deep, left to explain away From cold dark eyes used to eviserate Could love reach out farther to grasp a hand, as it turns slow with its back to the sun? Would a final kiss ever understand, that love is free or there is none? With lost leaves of summer, footprints in grass Love's forever lost, memories trespass