Love's Reflections
When my aged eyes come to close at last
Love's reflections will cause my soul to weep
With death so near I'll hold onto the past
And keep as proof of life before I sleep
To let the heart's flickering faces stay
A reminder of when horizon's fled
Ask not the tearful eye to look away
From pain so deep and worn to which I'm wed
To close my eyes and sleep with yesterday
With thoughts of every year in which I bled
The years of restless nights till' death will stay
To rest with me inside my tomb instead
These shadowed ghosts which kept my heart a slave
Will, sleep forever silent in my grave
1/22/21 contest Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Copyright © Frederic Parker | Year Posted 2021
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