As Close As Memory Restored

by  David Ish

 

You are as close to me as memory restored.

So close the closeness cannot be ignored.

You come to mind, and with your presence blind

With flooded light and peace I find

Whatever task before me gets a portion more

Of loving than it ever got before.

You are as close to me as memory restored.

Memories come at first of you and me

With our bodies being free

And giving lovingly

Our being through our bodies’ door,

Oh, merging union of the more!

You are as close to me as memory restored.

Then memory moves to deeper core,

Earth memories fading from the fore

Beyond memories of all that’s gone before

To memory’s memorable certainty

Of absolutely being, free.

You are as close to me as memory restored.

And from this memory there is no rest

It is the final memory and the best

That I remembered from those brief hours, blessed.

Of memory there’s nothing more.

You are as close to me as memory restored. 
 

from  End of Sorrow

poetry by David Ish and Lloyd Meeker