A.H. Browning

Of Hopes and Dreams


I remember you always
With a yearning, reluctant heart
The essence of my hopes
The expression of my dreams


Time held our futures concealed
Obscured in radiant, alluring enchantments
As we journeyed together eagerly
In the sunrise of emerging devotion


In growing affections, we forged our way
With impatient desire for each new day
From timid beginnings and lonely places
To a life of promise and warm embraces


With hope to truly think and feel
That just this once the dream was real
When all we dared to wish upon
Had come to pass, then quickly gone


Hopes were fragile
Dreams were fleeting
Both died grieving
Midst broken pieces of my soul


I remember you, unendingly
Through all the days of passing years 
In waking hours and throughout the night
I miss you so