Even Memories are Gone

I see photographs of smiling faces
And wonder where they’ve gone
The color of your eyes, I can’t recall them
Were they blue, green or brown?
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

Recorded voices and it does my heart sad
Just to hear the sound
Sometimes at night I can hear your whispers
Just outside my door
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

There was a time when I could take my shoes off
And wonder on back home
But it’s harder now to find my way there
The path’s so overgrown
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

Lay back in the water
Let the clouds carry you away
See the mountains as they slip down to the sea
And fade away, away

Emotions rise and fall just for their own sake
And carry me along
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like
If you were still around
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone


*I wrote this for my mom who passed in 1978.