Questions - Attrition

For how long will your ghost walk with me?

I thought your ashes lived among the roses now

Were you the white shadow that sent me sleepless nights?

I ran from you then as I did as a child

My birthplace no longer held me as your white charger appeared

For the time had begun, my eyes spelt out hope

I wanted to leave the beggar child at mother’s door

But I knew she was part and parcel of my whole

And you, my brother, I ask were we ever close?

Or did our cat and dog fighting secretly take its toll?

For you live in your world and I live in mine

Yours solid to the grasp, mine flows undefined

I have a listening ear or shoulder to cry

My friend that leaves for life across the water

And I wish you safe passage 'cause you’re leaving for love

Which is a rare thing in a day and an age