Memory At Sunset

Landscape lost in the past Landscape of my memory Memory reflects time ingrained in Memory of twilight gleam Gleam that swathed the horizon Gleam that wrapped the blue hills Hills rolled down to the plains Hills carved a valley for stream Stream cascaded joyfully downhill Stream garlanded my hamlet Hamlet of happy people Hamlet under the sparkling sky Sky of soaring songbirds Sky that caressed my kites Kites I’d flown with exuberance Kites played hide and seek with cloud Cloud drifted in the indigo sky Cloud made shifting shadows Shadows on verdant meadow Shadows of nebulous shape Shape of the opposites Shape of shade and light Light of slant sunbeams Light created convoluted pattern Pattern rippled in stream water Pattern formed around my paper boats Boats I sailed in curling current Boats carried my dreams Dreams of distant fantasy land Dreams of the mariner mind Mind of infantile motif Mind now sunk in tide of time Time flows in memory valley Time carries the uprooted life Life walks the last mile Life tinged by twilight trace Trace back faint footprint trail Trace the fading past Past engulfed by obscurity Past I want to retrieve Retrieve from the dust pile of time Retrieve the priceless pieces Pieces scattered in memory lane Pieces of my childhood Childhood wrapped by oblivion mist Childhood moments return at sunset Sunset finds juvenile zeal reborn Sunset splendor ushers the inner child Child… Reborn…