Fading

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Did you fade away from my memory?

You stand still while time beats me

An echoing conundrum that is

Constant as unkind

Lodged in hollow space

I cannot reach out to feel you breathe again

Did you fade away?

Where did you go?

I dip my finger in the in the pond

That rest just below the cherry blossom tree

In an attempt to see your face reflecting in the ripples

I see nothing but the sadness in me that trickles

And the pain refuses to roll away

The rain begins to fall

And I am haunted by deafening sound

Each drop like a heavy thud-weightless

I am burden by sorrow

Begging for days gone to borrow

My tears and the rain

Meshed

Where did you go?
Did you simply fade away like a sunset

That somehow I chose to purposely forget?

That couldn't be because with each

Sunrise you fade vividly back into my memory...

© Alya Landry 2008