Questions

For how long will your ghost walk with me?

I thought your ashes lived among the roses now.

Were you the white shadow that sent me sleepless nights?

I ran from you then as I did as a child.

My birthplace no longer held me as your white charger appeared,

For the time had begun, my eyes spelt out hope.

I wanted to leave the beggar child at mother's door

But I knew she was part and parcel of my whole.

And you, my brother, I ask were we ever close?

Or did our cat and dog fighting secretly take its toll?

For you live in your world and I live in mine.

Yours solid to the grasp, mine flows undefined.

I have a listening ear or shoulder to cry.

My friend that leaves for life across the water.

And I wish you safe passage 'cause you're leaving for love

Which is a rare thing in a day and an age