Flashbacks From a Roller Coaster Ride. Austen Barnes

will hear you clap in time

      as you echo in our minds-

      the gentle ghost who left the dance,

      but lit my way before,

      and when the piper stops again

      and points his finger to the door

      I will leave my partner true

      and dance again with you just as before

      until she joins us too

      and we'll welcome her anew

      and form a threesome, dancing on

      to find new music to delight

      as we dance forward to the light

      making most of what we have, and even more.

       YOUNG HEARTS

      Simmer, boil, bubble

      the heart beats

      its song of summer

      while youth prevails

      as beaus and seasons pass,

      and thread

      their chequered net of life

      about the great impasse

      then

      a flash

      the line is fast

      the instant clasp of hearts attuned

      and all before is past

      when in the looking glass

      beside myself - is you.

      The quest is done

      the heart is won and life has just begun

      when two can be as one.