Poetry

Alone
Blindness by Moonlight
Breathless
Castle Walls
Cubed Confusion
The Frontier of Dementia
Empires
First Great Crush
The Fondness of Summer
Freedom From Within
Heart and Soul
Invitation
Lest We Wait
My Memory
Night Mare by Moonlight
No Flowers
The Pain of Separation
Peace Within the Palace
Phantom of My Nights
Rain
Shadow of Romance
Sleeping
Sleep Well Sweet Heart
Summer Devotion
Tender Attention
Waiting Moon
What Past?
Wine for Two

What Past?

What past is this I've stumbled upon,
memories in print, letters of old.
Cards of promises, odes and more.

Should I save these effects, as I have till now?
To savor the scents and obsessions past?
With each word, a tear must form,
a casual bead of sorrow let go.

Or should I without care merely toss them aside,
to erase the tangible, to find them no more?
Alas I know too well, the forgetting of past
has refined power, to kindle the reflection.

Memories of gladness, caring and sorrow,
will with me, forever be.
And for every moment I reflect on my lament,
I recall more joys her friendship, really meant.

Asa Jay