Days come and go, they slip away
To morph into some yesterday
Where yesterdays forgotten lie
Reminding all of past goodbye.
Too sad that we cannot replace
Those memories of last embrace
As o’er the years of each regret
Somehow the pain we can’t forget.
Our vision dims, the picture fades
And we are here left with charades
That echo pain and misery
Of loving days that used to be !
The candle burns, its flame is bright
Lord help us to survive the night
It is no matter what we know
Or where it is that we shall go
Perhaps we’ll never meet again
Or share once more remember when !
The early morning fog begins to clear
I hear each leaf’s staccato on the ear
The wind whips through the clutter at the curb
While seeming to declare, do not disturb
The hollowed silence of forgotten days
Now echoes through this empty canyoned maze !
When I was young I fell in love
What was it I was thinking of
New fallen snow and frosty air
What did I see that wasn’t there ?
I was in love with winter’s spell
Cozy firesides if truth can tell
And as it happened I was lost
In passion strong that took its course.
I really thought our dreams came true
That you and I shared the same view
The winter once more brought the snow
Those fields of white began to grow.
But snow like life does fade away
To make room for another day
So like that snowman shrinking there
Some love just melts into the air !
When I was young and just a lass
I found a lovely bead of glass
Its color was the purest gold
The shape was bevelled and quite old.
I’d often thought from whence it came
And did its owner have a name
How foolish now as I recall
It hid amongst the leaves that fall.
But such a girl I was back then
I thought about it not again
For beads of glass without a home
Are objects of forgotten tome.
We cannot find the rest of it
And only have the smallest bit
‘Twould be a waste of time and care
To seek whatever once was there !
There are those thoughts that slip away
Into the realm of yesterday
Deep hidden midst one’s memory
Like moments caught in reverie
At times drawn from the saddened past
To seek those dreams that did not last !
Why can’t I remember or recall
All those precious times when I was small
When I sat upon my daddy’s knee
As he held me tight and talked to me ?
These memories are melting away
Just like my life, drip by drip each day
Oh what I’d give to capture it all
Sweet memories from when I was small !
Our lives have wandered far afield
And cannot know what time will yield
We beg that God will understand
And lend to us His helping hand.
The world is done and stranger still
Few people care, some never will
We wend our way among the maze
Of trying and forgotten days.
This generation, it is lost
There is no way to count the cost
All heaven’s tears are raining down
Oh save us Lord, lest we should drown !
How fleet and swift our lives pass by
With minutes lost, the hours fly
There is no time called used to be
What we once knew did rapid flee
And left us there in life’s abyss
Our hopes awash, our love unkissed !
Where is the dream of yesterday
Where has it gone it’s flown away,
It wasted by the road’s dead end
And lingered there without a friend.
The flowers withered on the vine
The fruit has shriveled in the clime
The world just seems so out of sorts
Our ships are moored in foreign ports
Hard work is there that none will share
I think there’s no one left to care !
The days go by they’re all the same
Though calendars do change their name
It’s like a dream one can’t forget
But seems it’s had no ending yet
This simple wish that knows no past
Too soon becomes its very last !
There in the past, the story grows
It lives the lie that sorrow knows
And carries on it’s tattered wings
The futile hope that dreaming brings.
Where did the thoughts of yesterday
Get left behind or go astray ?
How did we lose our earthly core
Or fail to reach for sky once more ?
It seems to me, we cannot know
How far and deep that loss will go
I need you Lord, to purge my soul
And help me please, maintain my goal !
There dimly through the window seen
Vast veils of snow upon the green
Old visions of once long ago
Gave credence to the falling snow.
Seems time has lost its human face
That haunted every special place
And greets us all in manner same
Small difference in stance or name.
Snow laden folk in iced disguise
With runny nose and sparkling eyes
Were there to greet us as we passed
Lost images in looking glass.
I’m sad those days have flown away
This world is cold and dark and gray !
I am a fish and wish to abide
Close by the sea and edge of the tide
But the fish in me is never sure
If my atmosphere is foul or pure
And swims about with no aim in sight
As I float to make it through each night.
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Claire V. Bogdanos 