Friday poem: "What is lost remains"

What is lost remains

           
What is lost remains

Invisible always present

Remembered and forgotten

 

It is the seal

That holds the present whole

Though porous when stirred

 

Is it not my memory

That keeps me hopeful

Even as darkness approaches

 

Peopled by those lost

And those lingering

Who add yesterdays to today

 

And make becoming

More than illusion

Tomorrow almost feasible

          
1/30/13-1/31/13

Copyright 2013 by Maurice Leiter.

Posted with permission.