I can't say goodbye to yesterday

I think of then,

Warm memories preserved by time.

How long has it been,

These memories I commited to rhyme?

To read these lyrics from then,

And remember what I once desired.

To clasp the faded pen,

And see what she had once inspired.

How tempting it is to reminisce,

To think of a falsified past.

All faults gone amiss,

Delectable memories are all that last.

My present continues to fade to before,

A second pondered, a second lost.

Hoping my future provides more,

To salve the wounds that she bore.