A Glimpse of Blue

A memory of lost love.

Decades before
First love had come
A tumultuous affair
Never surpassed
Gazing as summer blazed
Over shimmering corn
For faded denim
On a lissom form

A glimpse of blue


They walked by the river
To a special place
Cool swirling waters flowed
Past the dappled retreat
Passion soared
The cloudless sky
Sinking into violet eyes

But illness came
She was gone
Deep inside
He came undone

An old man now
At their rendezvous
A last time to follow
Footsteps from long ago
As he sat hours flew
By overgrown watersides
Vivid memories grew


He stood, at the end
Tired eyes intent
Watching the rippling corn
The past held tight
Gripped by what had been
A brief, fleeting moment
Her faded garb was seen..


A glimpse of blue