Music = Your Were Always On My Mind

---Memories---
THE SAND IN THE HOURGLASS
SLIPS AWAY
SLOWLY....
LIKE THE INTIMATE BITS AND PIECES
OF LOVE.
ALL TOO QUICKLY
A RELATIONSHIP, ONCE FULL,
WHICH SEEMED WOULD LAST
FOREVER                            AND NOW, LIFE TOGETHER
ALSO DRIFTS AWAY.                  COMES TO A CLOSE
TO THINK OF TIME                   LEAVING US
GIVEN US                           WITH GOLDEN MEMORIES
BUT NOT USED,                      TO BE WRAPPED IN VELVET.
NOT SHARED,                        PRECIOUS TREASURES
FOREVER LOST                       THAT WILL BE HELD
BRINGS SORROW.                     IN A SACRED PLACE
                                   NEXT TO OUR HEARTS.
                                   THOUGH TIME HAS PASSED
                                   STILL ONE WOULD WISH,
                                   ONE WOULD DREAM,
                                   EVEN KNOWING 
                                   LOVE
                                   UNLIKE THE SAND IN
                                   THE HOURGLASS
                                   CAN NOT BE TURNED
                                   AROUND
                                   TO BEGIN 
                                   AGAIN...


R. WAYNE PORTER

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