Stray Memories

Contrasts: --- break ---

Stray Memories --- break ---

I

Lost in days,
Less splendid ways,
Months gone astray,
Hours in the way.

Time marches forward,
Marks my mortal card,
Time takes charge,
On life's slow barge.

II

Past history partakes,
Of loves lost fakes,
Now memories fade,
Dull as time worn blade.

Half remembered glimpses,
Causing heart and mind winces,
Past images buried,
To be lost not carried.