TAMWORTH POEMS: RIVERSIDE LILACS

RIVERSIDE LILACS

Lilac’s sweet scent

And the Bearcamp’s sluicing song

Give my heart ease

Now that you are gone.

Give my heart ease,

But do not quell the pain

Of knowing that I’ll never

Walk with you again

Except in memory’s bittersweet

Though comforting afterglow:

The luminous husk of happiness

My heart will now know.

(June, 2014)