My second new poem:

“She Drew His Smile in the Sand”

She left the love she once shared with him
to memory’s keeping.
The silence he carried away
became the language of her grief.
It echoed through the chambers of her soul.
It grew louder than every word
they had spoken.
A love buried beneath the sand.
A lament without an ending.
Even sunlight could not awaken his smile.

Everywhere her feet touch,
she remembers
the scent of his body.
For one last time,
she gazes upon
his soft and gentle face
in a photograph
they once took together.

Upon the beach sand,
she draws the outline of his smile,
so she can see him
once again.
She sheds a tear,
one that becomes
a moment of heartache,
pain,
sadness,
memory blues.

She cries for his return,
for the pain
is too much to bear.
She searches for him
in all the hard places,
for her soul
is colored by lament.

Without hope,
without a guide,
her search lingers…
endures…
unfinished.