…now a deeper river flows

Those dark haunting eyes
they have taken the stars from me
I have thrown a thousand wishes
into the to the wild winds
but they have fallen upon the flames
and only their ashes remain
dissolving into the darkness within
now silenced like lost echoes
somehow still lingering in the shadows
slowly drifting in the dying wind
along with the melodies
of lost hopes and broken dreams
you once walked along these halls
silken memories etched within my heart
the ghost of you are woven through
the threads of me, my haunted tapestry
and those forever burning candles
that once reflected in your face
their last flames now wither in the wind
leaving only the shadows to linger on
your voice still echoes on the breeze
but before me now, a deeper river flows
and a new voyage in yielding waves awaits
here, where beginnings are dreams
and endings are beginnings
© Ann Bagnall
2012