Memories swirl within an aching heart

Tears flow from dark nights to daylight

Searching for peace but it hides

Thorns of regret and what if’s

Play their own sad songs

The unknowns dance among

The tattered dreams of what was not

And might never be

Still the flowers of hope

Try to bloom in this dark place

Maybe’s and could be’s call

But no answers come

Will tomorrow bring back

The dream that was lost?

The morning mist softens

The edges formed by doubt

Still the clock of time

Steals the seconds of mortality

They are placed with each click

Beyond the reach of yesterday

And into this life of lost moments.