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Fishing

~In Memory Only~

I sauntered down a country lane
of tender dreams of ages past,
and tried to resurrect again
the hope that always seemed to last.

But as I searched in ashes cold,
of hours spent when in my youth,
a picture clear did then unfold
reminding me of simple truth.

We may return in memory
to blooming years of yesterday,
but doors to youth have not a key
when time has blown the flower away.

First published in the Spring 1997 issue of The Candlelight Poetry Journal

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