The door blew shut; he left and he was gone
Forever gone - with no shade of an address
Perhaps t'was simply something that he'd known
Of journey-truths and beauty in the lilacs

Ye gone without a trace, tell me where I should look,
Become a postcard, bursting from this netting...
Another wrong step, melted in the nook
Of grinding-centuries with disregard for betting

I start to notice - you are everywhere;
You line my alleys in a snowfall saddened
In autumn-leaves, in tousled nests, in air;
On bullets lifeless and on targets deadened

Ye gone without a trace, I glimpsed so many times
Your ageless eyes, your smile, your feet's percussion
You vanished shouting something out of rhyme
About the love, about the vodka-rushing

Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey

Gone without a trace, he mixed up all the earth,
A spoonful of soul added to our substance,
No nudity, apartment, paper-worth,
Just for a moment fallen from the instants

Ye gone without a trace, you know of everything -
How to escape the walls of reason-slumber,
Not resurrected, but with and within,
You are destroying formulae and numbers

Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey

Life grows expensive; worn down with no doubt,
It licks at wounds from goalless sick exertion,
And on this quilt of lights, how you stand out!
You give to me the signs that heal distortion

Ye gone without a trace, I know that you're alive!
You're in the millions that walk around us,
Let us let all the numbered graves astound us,
And look out onto our line of time to thrive

Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
Ye gone without a trace -
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey
I will give your name to my journey

hey ina i love this peom it realy speaks to me says that we go places and leave behind people who do know where we've gone it is a great piece i love it thank you for writing it