Let pain and sorrow follow us
Beneath a cloudless sky
We’ll watch them chase and wallow as
We sail and fly so high
Betwixt the stars we’ll dip our hands
Into the heav’nly sea
Leaving pain there upon the lands
And sorrow in the lee
That forward we might ever fly
Weightless of heart and mind
When all the shadows go to die
Our paradise we’ll find
O let us dance, that boundless love
Might spring forth from our hearts
That we might see that world above
Where we’re never apart
The place where fleshless spirits roam
Each soul beside its mate
In such a place I’d find a home
By you, and what a fate
Fruit of the vine, I’ll make you mine
Come, fill my cup t’the brim
Both white and red will slow my head
And set the lights to dim
Why, when the air is frozen there
Above the fallen snow
Do eddies swift dance light and lift
The flakes to farther go?
A wat’ry grave awaits the man
Who does not chart his course
And yet to find uncharted land
The man must maps divorce
I watched as gracefully you stepped into
A door to far-off places past my sight
And watched as bright day turned to curséd night
For such is day without the light of you
I know you shall return before the end
That this great loneliness will someday cease
That I will at long last feel that release
Of your warm presence near, my soul to mend
But till the sun of that day crests the hill
And blesses all before me with its rays
I walk as one entrapped in a grey haze
And have no warmth to keep away the chill
By Time’s hourglass I watch the falling sand
Till you at last return, my heart in hand
Wherefore do horns and strings play so
In my mind’s silent ear?
Play bright, cellos, and trumpets blow
That I your songs might hear
I want for legends like of old
Heroes defying all
And hidden tales as yet untold
Beyond the future’s wall
I woke in sweat with visions of
Shadows before my eyes
And only you could hold me then
And tell me they were lies
I peered into the Reaper’s eyes
And saw amidst the grey
The truth against a world of lies:
That with him solace lay
A Poem A Day 