It is elusive

It is elusive

Dancing on the wind

Disappearing into shadow

Gone without trace

As the clouds chase

The day away

Sunbeams puncture holes

In the sky

Dust spirals

Caught in flagrante

Dissipate like cigar smoke

Aromatics

Bring me closer

To an understanding

As cherry blossom

Is blown into a flurry

Of pink snow

A velvet carpet

Without a footprint

To lead me home

When the chase ends

Nothing but the tinkle

Of a wind chime

To break the spell

I catch the sound

Hold it for a moment

It trickles

Through my imagination

Leaky as buttered fingers

And is gone

It is elusive

Nothing binds it to me

An image of you

Passing through cheerless

Corridors

Abandoned

Since the last fall

It will soon drift

Into the blue

Unless I can secure it

With the last remaining

Heart string.