Return To Eden Poem by Neil Graham Marsden

I chanced a stroll by moonlight to that place where love was born,
to see here on this cold night if those memories had worn.
No trace now for my delight of such promise left behind,
no longer would the soft light ever guide these eyes now blind.


One face that brought such treasure to my world of empty heart,
devotion beyond measure now so cruelly torn apart.
What dread befell the beauty of two souls that were as one,
So loved beyond all duty when love’s knot became undone.


I walk here each December as another year departs,
to try to just remember how two young and tender hearts
entwined themselves discretely underneath an awe struck sky
that framed us so completely as the New Year rolled on by.


All now consigned to history, as questions fail to find
answers to the mysteries that disgrace this shattered mind.
You came to bring me laughter then just left or so it seems,
to join the ever after, taking with you all our dreams.