Memories, Name Unknown

By: Gus Victoria

Memories served

A chilled course

Of a banquet now forgotten,

They teased at the edges of forever,

Taunting,

Haunting,

Calling to fall

A heart not theirs,

A heart freed

From a torment

With borrowed agility,

From a fantasy of impossibility.

Beyond the phantoms

twisted and unrecognizable,

An image, not quite perfection,

Took the stolen affection

To give hope instead.

No wings

No halo

Only an aura

Suffused with light

Turned to womanly form

Stood defiant,

Against those memories,

Against the past,

Against what was,

Clearing with fire

A path winding

To a hearth undying

Of a slow heart aflame

Burning brighter

In her growing fame,

Her name known only to him.