Tears On the Wind

I turned slowly around and met tears on the wind As from tattered cloud memories I heard once again Every verse of the poetry we once composed As we bathed in life’s whispers, so safe from life’s pain When our dreams were last vestiges of fading love And our smiles were like pages torn out from a book That we used as the kindling to light our fire Yet before we had burned them we took one last look. Though the sun came and touched me, I still felt the cold I was wrapped in a Winter of heart rending chill That remembered each moment of all of our rhyme And then left me alone, like a fool on a hill, In the depths of my silence I wept in the rain And I heard the trees speaking, as they often do Then in some sombre way I felt mended once more As her tears on the wind felt so near and so true. Then I got up and wandered through wild garlic waves To a glade of silk secrets that we had both known When our feelings were all that we felt them to be And yet feelings can change when two hearts are alone. And when tears on the wind touch two souls once again Through a rose briar arbour I stared into space Where our deep mirrored eyes touched the depths of our being No more tired and grey, just blue sea through white lace…