In the Forest of My Dreams

When all my days have been counted and all the faces I've known have been forgotten Yours is the face I always remember as it drifts through the mist from long ago when the world we knew had fewer shadows kept in the forest of my dreams You are the eternal flame burning in the temple of my heart which lays in the quiet realm of this forest its leaves dripping tears of sorrow upon the altar where my soul cries My heart hides in its secret places trembling like a frightened fawn left to die by the wayside You are the memory that nourishes with each entangled wandering pointing to the tomorrows of the unknown where winding roads lead to the face I once tenderly kissed until the last farewell and a final breath felt on a cheek growing colder leaving nothing but a broken-hearted memory in a barren forest where a dreamer wept once when the eyes of love closed in a deep sleep and nothing was left but silence 4/13/21 contest In the Forest of My Dreams sponsor Mystic Rose Rose