"Moment Held Tenderly"

Flaming tequila sunset
Colors of day fading into muted tone
Summer evening made for dreams

A lazy porch swing
an easy breeze holding memories
Hovering in yesterdays

Time marking the sorrow
Furrowed face, heartrending eyes
Aging hands that tremble

Her thoughts drift back
an epoch
She loved him, young and fair
He mirrored her soul
Eternity held gently
Two songs in one symphony
Merging with its own sea

Beyond the stars
She searches
to unearth him again
Hungry all the years
Stealing fire from the sky
to relive the passion

Chimerical of hope
Victim of twisted fate
Distance eroding the dream
as the moon eclipsed in alteration

Silent season
Petals of his voice
still linger
Held tenderly in a moment
His name whispered
with her last breath

Autumn turns to wintry chill
Images, scars and memories melt
A ghost in ashes on the snow
Love’s reverse
In soundless deep
as angels bear her pain