Echoes

A hand not raised
to stroke a head
or touch a cheek,
praise not given,
love not spoken
ripples through time.
Years later,
echoes return from
a distant unknown shore
and waking
you walk like a brittle shell
through the harder world,
vibrating to the sound
of missing notes
in a ruined hymn.


Mike Lyne

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