Dream-Vision

I saw you bride eternal on the stairs

Connecting living forms to seeming death

Descend in a translucency of blue.

Almost a dress of powdered light I thought,

Angelic yet the living form of you.

So sweetly did you smile that I mistook

The symbol self for the goddess that I knew

And yet within and perhaps moving through

I recognized a headdress and a look

That fills the heavens of our solitude

With radiance eternal, ever new.

Why did you come to me my slumber cease,

Or was it you or visionary dream,

And why did I react with such unease

And speak the pain-filled words my heart denies?

It hurt my soul so deep the tears still stream

To see the wounded beauty in your eyes.

If I find the place where we again can meet

Escaping once this bound mortality

I shall go and kneel before your feet

O Mere divine, my life, my destiny!