Shadows

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When shadows fall, think on me

Feel what we have in that place and time

That ne'er can be

While cool evening air floods round grass and trees

Like morning vapors clinging to the field

Reality wends serpentine and slow

When shadows fall, amber hues do glow

Warm in color, the thoughts we yield

When dawn breaks, think of we

Sense an alternative to the now

In the quiet of the morn

Your sunburned hands I long to hold

Your eyes of blue lock images in my mind

Your gentle tresses against my skin

Which only the wind can carry away

Oh the wind! It drives us off directions diverse and distant

The sun illuminates our world whisking shadows from view

When shadows fall again in the silence

Say a prayer that we had what exists in no other place and time

What could have been, what may be

In a someday dreams and hope rove free.

Shadows  - The Courage of Intimacy by Keith Ainsworth                                                                                                                                                                         34