Since Our Last Conversation

PAD Challenge Day 4: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Since (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Since our last conversation

Years have swept across the yard

And what remains of you and I

Is like an old post-card

Some memories grow distant, cold

Like hallmarks of lost fame

Time leaves its kiss upon my cheek

But you remain the same

We progress toward morrow’s place

Where hope still keens its dark

In spite of countless yesterdays

And dreams that lost their spark

Since the last time I craved your voice

The sun has risen…once

I always thought Time takes away

What it cannot ensconce

I’ve climbed many an afternoon

To gaze across the tide

Of Time’s intrinsic moment-swoon

…morning to noon to night

Since our last conversation

Past has grown robust and fat

For since dawn of creation

Years have a way of doing that

© Janet Martin