DAYS GONE BY
It lately seems I'm counting loss
Of treasured friends, of family dear,
Of days gone by, and happy times
When younger life kept joy so near.
A celebrated holiday
Is nowadays just not the same;
The music brings sad memory,
The candles burn a somber flame.
Those loves I left in bygone days,
They turn my heart's refrain to tears,
My soul feels sadness pulling down
To darkened place of unnamed fears.
The melancholy hours grow long,
As pictures form sweet mystery
Of precious things I knew and loved,
All faded now in history.
I wonder, as I turn each year,
The way one turns a yellowed page,
What can redeem these bygone days
And free me from this gloomy cage.
How differently my life has turned
As now new interests catch my eye,
Perhaps it's only life going on
Can melt the hold of days gone by.
Poetry, photo and background by Dorothy
Original MIDI "Kwiet" by Andy Klapwyk
