She Turns

Facing the cutting wind

Eyes watering in memories

Her lips concealing a grin

Tangled in realities

She'd rather not endure

Remembering apologies

Laminated in conjecture

Levied by adversaries

Unsettling alliances whisper

Within the relentless wind

Countering reason and closure

Resisting inner sanguine

She turns her back

To the setting sun

Facing her shadow's track

Unwilling to be overrun.

Edwin James

Standing

Knee deep in thoughts

Looking within and without

Breathing older no longer young

Tempting mind's cynicism

Willing to forget but still believe

Fantasizing over what never was

Thrashing over memories

Trapped in time.

Memories searching for answers

From decades long ago

Remaining hardened, unforgiving

Rustling in disenchanted winds

While dreams remain whole

An epitaph not quite ready

Inhaling light and darkness

Knee deep in thoughts. 

Edwin James