Dualities

and of the reflection nothing

as shadows negate presence

by affirming it

simple laughter and gentle joys steal the breath from souls

that live and every moment die

shedding a natural skin until repetition dulls the sense

until the music winds too low toward moments beyond recall

welling within

laying us still in sun lit breezes where ashes stray affecting the shadows but not the day

where nature remains and everything will always be in song

dreams of night without end and the shadow of days past as all i recall or care to remember stays darkly still many worlds away

remembering still

those rock strewn beaches lying cold against a darkened sea because you were there and sirens called for companionship

rainy days hold me in fingers without tips and shadows fall against what I want to say to filter like light and wish of distant memory

(*** this isn't me now, this is me then ***)