I Lost My Love
I lost my love on a winding road,
The scent of summer around the bend,
On a perfect hot and clear blue day,
And began a journey that has no end.
To take a breath and then another,
How could it be? I could not bear.
In blackness there was darker still,
I screamed to him in my despair.
The future that we took for granted,
Smothered, extinguished, no mercy there.
Some say it was his time, I question.
To that my answer, there is no fair.
These days I step between two worlds,
Dreaming of, those long lost ways,
When the world held no dark chasms,
When I witnessed brighter days.
I seek within me that which I,
Know to be still living there,
The light of what I am inside,
Requires no travel anywhere.
But even so, the light has changed,
The flowers bloom, their colors fine,
And yet somehow, diminishing,
My tears have washed away their shine.
It’s still my job to walk this path,
Hard stony steps, uneven course,
And muddle through, some days unclear,
To seek the brightness without remorse.
I know I have my loves around me,
Immersed I am in their gentle beings.
I live for them, my soul flows through,
Each one a diamond, how they gleam.
We will walk this path together,
And in our hearts we carry him.
The furthest reaches of our spirits,
Because this love can never dim.
