as I look back to try to remember

      as I look back to try to remember
      yesterday, full of woe and misery,
      I do not hope to live the rest of life
      as though I was condemned, for I cannot
      formulate a way to escape this strife.
      here ends the bitter sweetness of days
      and years that have silently pass me by,
      when everything lingers and everyone goes.
      I will miss you, in this fathom of mine,
      as the night goes into the morrow. and
      I thank you, for all the littered footprints
      you and I made on the shores of turmoil.
      I could only live as long as embers
      aren't subdued under the gentle night.

            Lowell R. Luis
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