Broken glass,
Empty frames
Marks on the wall
Where they had lain
Your pictures gone
Memories remain

You cannot take
Yourself from me
Repossessing things
Won’t set me free
Not looking back
Won’t let us see

Many years
Of sacrifice
Shared hopes
And dreams
Some realized
Those won’t end
By man’s device

This is much more
Than you and me
It’s not jailed up
Nor is it free
It can’t let go
Nor can it let be

Wherever you go
You take all of me
And where I go
You’ll always be
Even after I die
And in the earth I lie

Dolan Fernandes
2008