Love's Ashes We All Burned

Lost loves I've known sometimes appear to haunt my idle mind timeless shadows which reappear in fragments that remind inlaid scars hang on the heart's wall tear stains I stumble through some words spoken I can't recall those I cannot undo memories kept of loves I've known their eyes of passion gone full of life in the days we'd own when night begets the dawn remembering the times, we shared until we heard goodbyes in love, we dared when hearts prepared beneath the star-lit skies sometimes I wonder, where they are the ways their lives have turned those distant days that seem so far love's ashes we all burned some found the pathway to my soul hidden inside my heart they poured upon me love's control my soul, I could not part like an ebb tide, they come and go to leave an empty shore lost horizons we'll never know memories to explore these loves I've known, I'm grateful for they helped me through the years to find the passion at my core they cost no more than tears 5/22/22