Your Embers

Poignant my narrative told,

A paradigm of growth; life's tapestry holds.

Life’s surging fire, an allegory profound,

Confession of innocence, sentiments abound.

In childhood whimsy, memories reside,

Tracing footprints of companions, once bide.

Raw emotion, an exquisite ache,

As innocence crumbled, my soul quaked.

The flames, once vibrant, consumed in gasps

Charring the echoes of joy naught forever last.

A sepulcher for the fur and feathered kin,

A poignant chapter, a burden begins.

Yet time, the silent maestro, orchestrates the dance,

Transforming the searing loss into a tempered trance.

The rawness, a symphony of poignant notes,

Fading with each dawn, ken be cutthroat.

A numbness resides in dear childhood eyes

Tears swelling, all but a bitter guise

A scorching blight forever in sight

Fiercely love seeks only to smite.

Embracing the dichotomy, from living to end,

A journey through loss, a complex blend.

Self does matures, understanding unfurls,

Life's harsh truths, mirrors past pearls.

The quelling of emotion, a measured grace,

In the cadence of time, where sentiments erase.

For living, in essence, holds weighty pang,

Innocence lost, all but smoke still hangs