It seems
wherever I go
people come into my life and go out of it,
touching me where I can feel it,
then leaving only a memory
like the fairy tales of childhood;
and I wasn't through knowing them yet.
How do you know
when you are seeing for the last time?
How do you stop
together and keep all those around you that
you've ever known and loved?
And how do you keep
fairy tales from losing their magic?
So come-
brush against the walls of my life
and stay long enough for us to know each other,
even though you know
we'll have to part sometime;
and we both know
the longer you stay the more I'll want you back
when you are gone.
But come anyway
for fairy tales are the happiest stories I know
and great books are made up of little chapters.
"Brushing against the walls of my life" - Chester Swor