WITH FONDNESS

Was it just yesterday
when I saw her at play
swinging in light snow
at a mock village show
far away, or was it long ago,
years have flown as she has grown,
as guest she stayed with family in tow
greetings exchanged using a phone
always a kind word or two, perhaps more
to her invitations extended as always before
invariably blocked, she found a locked door,
though some unsuccessfully sought her hand
her heart is still free to roam, given to none,
now with her maturity beginning to show
difficult are the choices she well knows
conceivably start a new life, relocate
yet there just may be another date
who can truly predict her fate.

Herbert Holzbauer
© March 2004

Midi: "Candle Night &You and Me"
(MIDIBOX)

Graphic: "Dr. Seo Jae-pil
Memorial Park"