I Know Where the Lost Years Are

The soul’s tread through Time’s Veneer

Takes turns unending through places that were dear

Circling like cobwebs soft as marsh

And tapping toenails on rocks so harsh

 

Dance in dreamworlds far and near

Where old friends from memories appear

Twirling in time-lost lover’s embrace

Or standing still, while otherwise there’d be no trace

 

For here is where the lost years are clear

Like pages of a long-lost book, at which you peer

And become again the child reader, fresh and new

Touching pages heedless of the decades which separate you.

 

You can come here heartily and without fear

Or cross to dim places where you need armor and gear

For as the years stretch and strain, becoming sparse

Some pages are kind, some cruel, and others farce.

 

Just know that whenever you cross, they are here

And when to this dreamscape the music of memory may steer

Dripping dewdrops dangle every face

And form, and creature that time would erase.

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