What Always Lingers

Wanting to be your gentle breeze
The winds of life drifted you from me
Your sent has lingered
The memories have lingered too
Life gives us pain and pleasure
I feel both when I feel you still
That feeling lingers
And I am grateful
My dreams having sailed
Across the river
Far and wide
To eastern shores
Laying me down
In greens and gold
The flower whithers
Soon I dream no more
Yet once upon a time
There you were
It was nothing of a dream
Until you were no more
You still linger