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