You haunted my thoughts
Driving my desire
In that summer
Of your life’s emerging flower,
I remember
There I knelt before you
With outstretched arms
And you’re smiling eyes

Reflected my affections
When I held up my dreams
For us with both hands,
But you stepped out of my life
In the autumn of our last embrace
Beyond my gentle touch
With last whispered words
Still echoing in my stunned silence,

Now you are my comforting thought
Before I close my eyes at night
The one I walk with in dreams
And I would be with you still
But you are gone
These ten long years,
On this day
Etched on my memory,

Seated on a bench
A hostage of old age
On wood weather beaten
Beneath a rain grey sky,
I remember the warmth
In those smiling eyes
In this graveyard
Of forsaken headstones,

But you still shadow my shadow
This skin covered skeleton
This spectral speck,
And your voice
Still stirs my silent thoughts
Igniting my desire
A single pair of hands
Before an ardent lonesome fire.