LET MY MEMORIES WHISPER WORDS OF LOVE

Let my memories whisper words of love

To your thoughts, as moonlight streams

          Through the windows of my dreams.

And the shadows of the snow-flakes write

          A verse upon the sky,

          As far away you lie;

Forsaken, not forgotten,

          By the soul amidst the stars,

Who carries every vision, right

          From Mercury to Mars.

                        

You sank beneath the tidal wave

Of circumstance and time

And bubbles that arise in wake

In unision burst in rhyme

          And far away, above the lake

          Where echoes, mournful, chime

The starlight glistens on the snow

Of nameless graveyards, and the glow

Of candles, to the thoughts of lonely lovers is confined.

And generations of merchandizing,

Sermonizing, tantalizing

Advertising taught us every virtue can be sold.

And we, believing this big lie

Did cease to live, except to die

And tried to turn emotion and our passion into gold.

But gold turns black with time and age

And so does beauty's fair visage

For shadows fall before the sun

Can rise; the clock will ever run,

And everyday a day is done

And time turns one more bloody page.

Thus every new generation comes,

Is born to live, yet lives to run

From death, and when its time is done

Is laid to rest within the cage

Of evermore and eternity

With a false facade of serenity

And the eye of truth perceives it all

And smoulders with a burning rage!

Let my memories whisper words of love

To your thoughts as moonlight fades

          Through the gaping wounded gates

That bound the fragrant garden

          Of love, where we did lie

          Together beneath the sky;

The world around forgotten on

          Some lonely pine-wood glade

When you spoke to me with glances

          "Let not this moment fade

           Let time, the river, cease to flow

           Let circumstance be bound.

           And I be lost forever in your

           Heart, and not be found."