When Life Was Perfect

those illusory days which rolled away like sapphire waves !  a dreamlike abode ~  cradled in an alluring landscape ~  a charming swing ~ swinging away innumerable times~ lots of eferevescent laughter, delightful hide and seek, floating rainbow-tinged paper boats on a rainy day ~ and you ~ you were perfect!  you gave me the world~  a young girl's world full of tenderness and imagination...  never forgot to celebrate our life of togetherness ~  under the canvas of an ultramarine sky, a panorama of pearlescent clouds gliding by... among the dew-touched flowers unwrapped at dawn, which embraced us with a cadence of love... but, as much you tried, I tried,  that life fell apart,  life was not perfect any more!  can you bring me back those moments?  when every moment was miraculous dew-drops on lotus-leaves,  shaking, quivering... almost disappearing~ fragile, but mysteriously permanent!  you are still perfect~ there was never any other you~  FIRST PLACE A Brian Strand July 14 Poetry Contest