Pepper D. Basham

  Memories drift into my mind as shadows cloak the coming night:

Thoughts of a forgotten time, disguised within a moonbeam’s light.

Your embrace consumes me here within the silence I have met:

A moment now to linger on the one my heart cannot forget.

 

I’ve mimicked living, even love, convinced that kindred hearts are torn,

But fantasy soon will dissolved and leave no rose within the thorn.

A leap too great for me to take, leaving this peaceful place I’ve set;

But I cannot deny your hold; the one my heart cannot forget.

 

You follow me throughout the day, though I avoid your memory.

I catch your scent across the wind, or hear your whisper calling me.

Should I return into the hands that left my spirit with such debt?

Would you be willing to reply, oh one my heart cannot forget.

 

Now feelings dull, but I felt life when wrapped within your tenderness.

I knew great love, but also pain.  Is heaven worth the certain risk?

The night slips by but daylight dawns within this soul inclined to fret.

I’ll find you, lover, stranger, friend; the one my heart cannot forget.

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