Once I knew

Sitting now in still of night and in the darkness reflecting back of all the ones that I once knew and only memories remain unto me oh how I wish that I had something which to I could cling that I now could again touch as once then so did we but nothing of them does remain of but what once was a burning flame only memories that do fade and into darkness slip all away looking into the coming dark footsteps that alone I’ll take wishing somehow that I could touch of the ones who once meant so much perhaps I wonder perhaps I hope that somehow they still remember me and think of me in dark of night with the remaining memories that do slowly fade traces of love that I once felt crying for memories alone in the night wishing somehow something remained that I could touch again what once there was