For Mary Angel

She lives in my mind
In a world of stills;
Images shorn from the thread of time
That is what she is
A snapshot within my memory
Never fading, never changing
Who she was
And will never be again,
That star by which
My heart is led
Unreachable
Unattainable
~Unassailable memory
And the pattern of my life
Colored by a tender kiss
The taste of which
Has long since faded


E. L. Ashley
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