Love Sustained By Memory (Shakespearean Sonnet) when Presence Fades And Days Poem by ashok jadhav

grow thin with ache,
Memory steps in to hold what time has torn;
In quiet thoughts, thy shape I still awake,
And feel thy nearness though thou art withdrawn.
Each recollection keeps our love alive,
A flame preserved where distance cannot tread;
Through what is lost, the heart continues strive,
Nourished by words once said and tears once shed.
The past becomes a refuge, warm and sure,
Not as escape, but proof of what has been;
For love remembered learns itself secure,
And draws new strength from moments unforeseen.
Thus memory stands where touch can reach no more,
And keeps love breathing on the farther shore.