…in a dream

What we had
was always moving
slowly, like water
changing rock into sand
like a walk in a dream
that at the time, felt like now
and also forever
but tomorrow
was never promised
and even tireless feet
must surrender to time
time, which now
has stopped again for me

for you were always
my seconds
my minutes and my hours
as seasons come
and ages pass
still your memory remains
a secret sanctuary
in my mind
long remembered
and long unsaid
in my forever
endless restlessness

I want to look once more
into your eyes
to hear your whispers
on the wind
you, you are forever
in my heart
where every rosebud
finds its petals soon
now I am slipping quietly
into your dream
beyond reach
and beyond time

it is a place
I have come to know
so well
a place of moments
and familiar shadows
where our journeys merge
and a peace
long missed, descends
walk on my love
and with each step
I will feel you
move further into me

for I have loved you
in lifetimes before
I hear a whispering breeze
calling to me
through the trees
I see your name
gently painted
across the fields of light
I hear the truth
whispered softly
in the still of the night

I hear your quiet footsteps
on the boards
I hear the songs of memory
serenading me
I feel the waves rising
in the oceans of my heart
I see the wind
carrying you back to me
and I am sailing
forever onwards
into the waiting depths
of your beautiful eyes
© Ann Bagnall
2013