Empty Echoes: Meet Me Again In The Black Mountains of Wales

Empty Echoes: Meet Me Again In The Black Mountains of Wales

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Look across years
my past today
call out to
Black mountains
Far far away

***

Calling out your name
In the mountains of Wales
I look for you still
After all these years 
When I call out
Empty echoes
Return
Far
Not
Near

***

Lost in your
Brown eyes
Crushed
Broken
We said
Goodbye 
After All
These years
I don't
Understand
Why

***

Some things
Happen once
In life
I call out
To the mountains
Of my past
If I stayed on  
Our path 
You would
Be my wife 

***

In my dreams
We return
To the beach
Below Tenby
Cold sea 
Cliffs rocks
On the sand
Together
Under a blanket
Watching 
Currents
Our loves
Stormy weather
Life's emotions
Crashing waves
Drowning
In loves
Deep
Mysterious
Ocean

***

You became
my past
As we
Turned
At the fork    
Going our
separate
Ways
Our
Love
Drifted
Apart

***

Decades
pass
Yet
In my
heart
You
Live
On
Remain
Near
My
Dear

***

Meet me again in the
Black mountains of Wales 
Our echoes won't
Come back empty
Together
We can stay
Passing our days
Until at life's end
We slowly
Slowly
Fade
Away

***

Written in Tenby, Wales, in August 1989. Revised and completed May 16, 2022.

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© David Penn Trinley Arndt 2022

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Tenby at Sunset. Billy Stock/Robert Harding/Getty Images

 

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