In dark approach
Feeling the walls for light
Feeling the walls to lead me to her.
And then I find her
Lying in silken splendor
On the warm mattress
Crumpled sheets surround her
As she lies in their
Valleys, passes and plains
Slowly, shakily
She breathes in the fragrance of the thousand flowers there,
Bidding her farewell.
She opens her lips
Still moist but drying
And whispers
“I love thee
But time is leaving me,
And what time leaves behind
Only memory can hold to its breast
So hold me my dearest
Hold me in your heart forever
For soon time shall leave me.”
And I said,
“I shall my love,
Hold you forever
I shall,
And now time is leaving you
And I shall nurture the future you leave me
In your honor my lady
I will live
Holding, with memory,
What time has lost
What I shall never lose.
Be on your way,
Leave no worries behind
And I shall be with thee soon,
When the future grows tired of me.”
And gently her eyes closed
A sigh of relief left her soft lips
And the wind
Swept her soul away
So far away from me.
