Fireweed Poem by Richard (Narad) Eggenberger

Fireweed

We saw vast fields of time's immortal flowers
Ablaze beneath the pale Alaskan sun
And stood on glaciers carved in primeval hours
Who watched earth born, destroyed, again begun.

We wandered there at twilight and I knew
This place my spirit recognized as home,
A world of icy splendour shot with blue
Surrounded by a sea of frozen foam.

White were the skies at the season's too-swift end,
The whales moved southward to a warmer tide,
If only once all time I might suspend
Beloved friend, eternal summer's bride,

I would wish this moment be immortal made,
And yet how can undying love fade?