In youth, I left Hispania
Drawn by the lust for wealth and gold...

Typing emails through the night
Fervent letters in the dark...

Shimmering light on dawn's lake
A rising sun of caramel gold...

Ring of green round melting pearl
Fountain streams up to the sky...

Desert star of melting silver,
Gleaming through the clouds...

Forever lie the plains of midnight
Silence marks the path before me...

Jade mystic pond in mind's eye shimmering,
With its ghostly mist dream barriers...

Golden lights shine in the distance
From my dreams, they summon me...

Magic marble purple, melting into the windy night,
She stands in the distance, on a hill...

A scintillating galley sails out into the forever...
One ship receding into the far horizon calling...

In Crystal Depths
In crystal depths as dark as night...

I remember the Moon over the bay, at Sanibel
When we walked its golden sands, hand in hand...