Best Faithmemory Poems
I lie forlorn beneath freshly fallen snow;
once a bridal veil, now a shroud.
I will not feel the first spring rain.
I will not feel the sweetness rush through me.
Disconnected from the flow, prostrate;
a fallen form freezing to a forgiving ground.
Beside me, remnants of my former glory lean.
Boughs plucked, pieces bent into the endless circle
marked with a blood red bow.
I lie dreaming now with the fallen leaves,
a glorious memory of sunshine, songbirds, soft rain,
and strong winds, swaying in the crisp fall air.
As the last, remnants of memory bloom,
a multitude of bright prismatic light
and the sound of tinkling glass rises
to bring me homeward,
crowned with the evening star
my fallen spirit rises.
Every Sabbath the shadow of your time
Fleeing the cycling earth
Comes this way again. The sublime
Moment was the young reeking with mirth
Calling for volunteers
On their pick up MV program. Cheers
Would go up for 100 years
Coming forward to counsel my peers.
There was the one song:
Praise the Lord, I saw the light
And you sang it again and again; flight
Of memory to it, and I long
To see you standing there again
Dissolving my hunger for the refrain.
I do not lament your rest
The strength of faith is laughter vain
As our carnal love in the pain
Of the shriveling breast.
It is the passing of my own time
I suck from the sour void for each memory I chime.
You are gone now, having left us
When my boyhood had barely changed
From being barefooted in the dust
And I from so much is estranged
Chasing the darkness to find the light
Knowing that what glows in the dark
Will glow to be seen, and glowing bright
I can follow you to the celestial park
With brimming fountains sparkling praise.
You see the prints I left in the dust
By the wind that blows the sands was razed
But the light remain forever, I trust.