How strange that I’ve heard news of you today
Sure I had thought that you’d sailed far away.
Almost as though we too had never caprice known
Emotion tossed like dust into the wild wind sown.
Then for awhile these images were best forgot
In growing time did slowly fade and lingered not.
Now word which caused my heart to doubtful hesitate
Has forced my mind to halt and painless meditate.
And through the distance clearly impediment saw
Like rocky shoals that shelter an unchartered shore.
Some embryo now guarded in its silk cocoon
From reckless growing thoughts that stifle breath too soon
While rising fears assail me baring their own ill,
And wonder why when all is done, I love you still.
One foolish dream that had been better tucked away
Lingers with a passion declining to decay,
And carries as its burden, the weight of hoping
This craft, its compass gone in the darkness groping,
Far saner put ashore upon safe sandy beach
Than seek one lifetime long, lost paradise to reach.
Claire V. Bogdanos 