Memory Storm

The storm gods thundering power
Is  silence to me as I spend the hour.
In memories lanes I will wander again
Ignoring storm clouds and the rain.

I live again in this stormy hour
Those fleet  winged long passed years
With all the sweetness of joy and woes
Of happy youth and love and tears

I see again the happy friends
We were such a joy filled band.
I warm my soul in their sunshine smiles
And grasp once more a loving hand.

The glorious May time of my life
And autumns crimson rays.
Like a half forgotten tune
Have come and slipped away

I call to them all from my youth
And cry oh where are they?
But as the flowers of the spring.
They are gone and passed away.

Returned and gone to the timeless earth
Who reclaimed them as her own.
And I sit here inside this storm
In memory past so all alone.