Visions In Firelight Poem by Tom Squires

Older than memory
Beside the willows
Waiting so patient
away through the evening
inside the moment
I saw her looking
lovely into the night
I poured on my best moves
Here from a distance
Left all the rest up
To beauty for instance
Then with just one glance
She smoked out my motive
then turned it to nothing
But mainline between us
She smiled for rainfall
Looked past my road block
Waved on the next thought
And gave me a good sign
The next time I saw her
Time stood between us
While off in the distance
A train rumbled slowly
A song that we noticed
here in the morning
That told us to gather
And bind us together
To roll through the ages
And never to give up
But always to look up
Through pain and through mercy
And chiming like church bells
Of daylight around us
To never forsake us
But always go with us
And if we are brave
We give up our pride
To the great gift of love
At the turn of the tide




2015 Tom Squires