No Homecoming

No Homecoming Memory flows like the wind through chimes Of a love so sweet only a fool would not know To remember forever the passing of a sublime Giving of a love so timeless, so bold Perhaps etched in stone, a remembrance displaying An imbedded longing, a need to take back A life, ending so sudden and cruel, displacing A hope, a promise not kept for a lack Of a knowledge yet to be discovered Despite for centuries past progress so swift Has yet to seal a chasm, uncovered Of a despair of loss, a smile to uplift No broken spirit, however, ‘tis only body Unscathed thy soul, a candle that burns Within the reminiscing of truth not forgotten A lover, a fool at times, yes, who still yearns To trace his words, words under no pretense Will give forth his mournful meaning Flavored with life’s riches, bounty, a permeation like incense Words etched with caution, for he hopes for this to be his dreaming Fool cannot sustain his own life for The grievance of his promise broken too soon Through death a betrayal leaving fool forlorn Yet was witness to a lover whose own devotion waxed and waned like the elliptical moon