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Serendipitous Memories

There is a special place for you 
ever in my mind.
Though you consume it all, in that place 
you have fashioned an impregnable fortress.
A quarter filled with lasting 
and sacred notions of you.
It is charged with endless depth of emotion and your grace.
A unique realm, it is fit for you alone and at that I regress.

I search the world over to find another you; 
someone to capture me in the self-same way.
I am, in that regard, silent and try not to confess 
that you are like the wind that relentlessly blows.
My efforts to rearrange 
those pervading memories are futile.
Stubborn, I try not succumb. I am pressed to dress 
that which is indelible and unmistakably shows.

I find my will defying me; 
it wrestles me to no end for you. 
Why, mind of mine, do to cling 
to one that did not stay?
For you came in my yesteryears, 
thus possibly a fantasy that remains.
Yet in reverie, I dote and sing 
wishing for you never to grey.

It is an incongruous mystery 
that shatters my beliefs to the core.
Contradictory to nature, I am chased true 
to find a visage of you.
My thirst for which can singularly 
be met by your presence.
Serendipitous memories will be your legacy; this I always knew.
They are akin to white light of sun rays that remains after night's dark hue.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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