Lest we forget

The eyes which reveal love

Help it take hold

Words paint an old picture

Turn it to a color film

Of an event sequence decades old

Bring to life a lost scene

In the process

The works send the listener

Back to similar periods of their lives

Reliving times they may have forgotten

Showing the similarities

Between generations and locations, backgrounds

Revealing commonalities rarely seen

Bringing smiles to the inner brain

We wait for the arrival

Of yet another open mind

Ready to absorb life

From the fully ripened fruit

In the meantime decades flow by

There are no unmet needs in sight

Evidence of the bounty overflows

Winds of change slowly blow

Unseen modifications emerge

The life span narrows

Words come in rapid bursts

Unable to fully express the depth

Feeling burnt

And yet intact

As if a Redwood

After the fire has left.