Now you are captured and scattered into everything I do.
I miss you, and think of times and places that were coloured,
moved and brought to life by you.

As good things close and come to an end
and good men look away into the distance of memories
where you used to play with abandonment and happiness,
I have been touched and changed forever.

Close your eyes and don't be afraid.
We have been with you and will continue with you on,
with everything that you have shown us and shared with passionate frailty.

The essence of time has come,
danced and dithered at your feet
like an endless chain of musical notes and melodies
freed from the page that contained them.
A stream of verse pours out onto the pavement that leads to your door,
where you will wait comforted by a familiar voice.

Now, as the colours fade and innocence has walked away and left with you,
We lament and tell tales of when you were young
As you forever will be.