Deluge

I am beside myself waves of sadness and pain washing away whispers of you left here with nothing as I remember our laughter days of dreams and fanciful imaginings undaunted, we pressed our way full of confidence if only those mountains would move landfills and streams lift we were certain one day we would indeed taste the fruit we knew would be there and now memories haunt these fragments of images I hear on quiet days death came and took them all away your smile in my mirror is all I have left ...