These Poems as a Remembrance

All those other pieces of life I’ve lived are gone. The ones before, gone forever. I mourn their passing, their innocence, their unexpected wonder, their irretrievability, that they were blessed gifts beyond my expectations. My childhood and after, those until a now unseen conclusion. My great regret is that my parents and all those others who played such treasured roles, and who have now passed on, are not with me to share the joy and happiness of the recollections from those lives. To them I offer these poems as a remembrance to their blessed memory.