Tender

Tender touches, tendrils of time

Moments soaked in misty trails

You still whisper to me love verses

My poems tell our stories.

You came and went

But you were never gone

Like a sea curdling at the shore

Your memories nestle in my heart

Deep down in the alcoves of my mind

I built another world of you and me

Where I write, sing and dance,

Tender years of yore is where I belong.