Memories

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Deep in my mind are memories of you:

Your smiling face and long dark hair,

Your tender loving voice said words true,

And your beating heart proved you did care.

I still see you in my nightly dreams, 

And I feel your embrace day and night.

Your love is still mine, or so it seems,

Because it shines in my heart as a light.

Your vision haunts my every thought,

And everything that I say and all I do,

Result because of the love that I sought.

And when I loved you, I was never blue.

Those memories remind me of the past,

And how things between us used to be.

Sadly, I realize that our love failed to last,

And I wonder if you felt as hurt as me.

Memories that tell me that I was wrong

Keep me lamenting this sad, sad song.

April 20, 1968

USNRTC

Great Lakes, Illinois

Poem № 18