All Distances Beyond Repair

Child hymn choirs fill the cool bright air
Frost’s silver glimmer
paints fragile strands of grass
and crisp fallen leaves
Even on this day of familiar faces and cheer,
thoughts of you persist

Why is it, in unguarded moments,
My mind always travels
the worn miles
over the unbridged sea of time
back to your diamond gaze?

I know I will never see your face again,
Only in dream’s dim light,
out of reach,
All distances beyond repair

Christmas Day, 2003