ECHOES OF YOU

Echoes of you
resonate in my mind,
bouncing around the walls
of the cavern,
stronger than life,-

More vivid than my imagination
and more important than my dreams.

“If only I’d thought of the right words,
I could have held on to your heart.”
If only I’d thought of the right words...

Visions of you
Fill up all of my attention
and my eyes see nothing else
There are no other sounds
Just you.
Normally, dreams are
better than reality.
but sometimes, the past
is even better than our dreams

Copyright ©2022 Ashi Shadow - 11/30/22
On Katie and Shweta
Considered leaving the poem unfinished.
After the first word “dreams” the rest can be considered a bit like epilogue.
The quoted section is from Pictures of You by the Cure (and that also inspired this poem).