The memory of lingering moments

The memory of lingering moments

Remembering your final evanescent breath’s exhale
I close my eyes and see you’ve gone
Sail away into peaceful ocean’s waning sunset
Drift away into distant horizons beyond

There is never a well - seasoned sailor’s voyage
Without tide book and sagacity in weathered hands
Steady compass hold ye sway ,.. deftly poised
Never an ocean to wide to cross
Nor never stormy seas too swellen to be borne

An unbroken circle courses an unfinished life
It’s a long and hard journey pushing on
It all seems so vividly just like yesterday
Running on faith , a forever beginning impending dawn

Some days are indelibly etched on heart’s walls
Some moments were carved in ancient stone
These are the days of fleeting memories' pang
Still standing tall with fragile heart in open palms

There is a comforting reverence knowing
Hearing love’s mantra alive in the breeze
Believing unconditional love’s imminent eternal bloom
Shall never fade away

harlon rivers ...  September 28th , 2014

Note : Time cannot erase what which we hold closest .

An emotional purge ... a first draft to be shared as is 

commemorating  the anniversary of my father's last day on earth 

The truth entwined in dreams

We only collide in mesmerizing daydreams

things have never been as they seem

presence felt  so tangible across distant horizons

touching souls only in the throes of musing dreams

Therein lies an abstruse distance to destiny

exiled by clairvoyant sheltering walls

shielded within a hidden untouchable safe haven

imprisoned comfortably confined within

Once exploring vast winding river’s shoreline

tiptoes taste at the shallow waters’ edge

"Close your eyes" ..,  float afar where ferral currents beckon

waft away in moonstruck daydream’s trance

Only in sumptuously lucid night dreams

we crash stark-naked into a sea of sublimity

plunging into an alluring  metaphysical abysm 

into the secret titanic depths azure oceans bathe

Plummeting from the edge a utopian threshold

sway aneath restless swollen waves touch

unraveling  passion’s prevailing tidal maelstroms

that wellspring of  cadence to which I yearn to swim

Yet … I’ll drift away alone this restless sky full of stars

fly by night through star dust showered cosmos scenes

crash into naked stars’ luminescent splendor

imbibe a spellbinding elixir yellow moon serene

Only in dreams before morning dewdrops gather

impearled flesh glistens on the cotton beach of dawn

awakening sighs replace the warm enraptured whispers

the touch our sensual asylum betides

Splendidly improbable entrancing reverie

inspire indefinable enchanting realms

awakening to another lonesome daybreak’s

outgoing tide of broken beautiful dreams 

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