Remembering

I will hold these memories of you

Tenderly

Mixing up the hurting with the healing

Setting wounded feelings free

Restlessly they flutter anyway

Often banging their longing bodies

Against the bars of these emotional cages

Taking ages to find the way to flight

Today I will not hold so tightly

To past pain

Instead I will touch it lightly

And let it fly free

Comforting aching self

With the sweeter memories

Of those times

You and I

Found the way

Through the broken shards of hurt

Across the cobbled stones of caring

That led us back to love