Copyright 2000 M.D. Burke

Love Remembrance I sit quietly in my winter garden Holding your Love in my finger tips I breathe in the cool, crisp air and I feel content For I know that you will always adore me despite our differences The frozen silence swirling around me brings peace to my heart And lulls me deeper into complacency I drift into a drowsy half-sleep and Fragmented images of you begin passing through my mind A timeless trance A brush of shadows moving across my face Patterns of your discontent dance in the wind-teased winter leaves around my feet And a vague unease begins to scratch at the velvet overlay of delusion I shroud myself in As I sleep Your soul became a growing tsunami fighting against my neglect for your needs Anger so all-encompassing it has no focus Over endless white snow through endless white fog Your ghost runs beside me along with memories of the times I came to my garden to forget The times we spent in endless strife We stare at each other through our spirit-eyes The dead silence between us running deep We move in our own separate solitudes, turning in on ourselves in a grim struggle to maintain our sanity Becoming so far removed from each other I cannot understand what you desperately need from me Disturbed deeply by these visions I stumble Lost in this chaotic whirl  My illusion that you could never leave me turns cold And forever winter nights run across my soul Grief, rage and accusations flow out of me, until my tears calm into quiet acceptance At last I awake and chide my empty fingers For your love is truly gone from my hands And now love remembrance is all I have left