Pictures From Then
Pictures from Then
- by Colin Campbell, 2014
Those echoes
Far-off
Somewhere beyond the edge of now
Sometimes gentle
Edging tentatively towards awareness
Soft brushing my thoughts
The sounds of drifting images
Faded colours
Whispers barely seen
Return along the road
To where?
An almost forgotten place
We were Left behind there
They are so familiar
Yet of another time
Distant
I can hardly see myself
Who was that then?
Who?
You were there too
There with me
And who are you now?
And then
Back in yellowed times
Craning to see forward
We are left there
Bewildered
In what will be the old time one day
We reach forward to the future
Our voices calling out
Calling out from then
And up ahead,
Will we wait for us
from here call back
Reassuring though saddened
Such distance between
Can we ever leave that faded place
Hurry forward
Find the hand of now
Grasp it
Be remembered once more
Held and reassured