…with fragrance

You are beside me
all my life
you walk with me
in all the hours of every day
and every lonely night
through all the years
we spend apart
never near
but never absent

I know you
from deep inside
and long ago
a love never uttered
never spoken
never seen
I may not press you
to my heart
but the winds
give back to me
from a silence ages long
the music of your voice
and bring again
the haunting shadow
of your face

every breath
that passes your lips
will one day find
its way to here
then part of you
will be a part of me
the lonely shadows
of all the things
that we have never said
that bind your heart
to mine

I whisper
only to myself
the echoes
from your soul
still remembered
the endings
and beginnings
I have searched for you
for lifetimes
I see you
in my dreams
I know
that you are waiting
without the need
to question why

you, the one
who knows me best
you are with me
still with me
you live on
in each beat of my heart
and life is once again
sweetly flooded
with fragrance
© Ann Bagnall
2016