Now You Are Gone

Oh my beloved what further can I say

I have not uttered time and time again

Who face the perils of uncertain day

Now you are gone and I alone remain?

I would not have it thus but words are weak

And powerless without the force to change,

And peace eludes, the Presence that I seek

Though once so near seems now so far and strange,

Elusive as the ageless mystery

No mind can comprehend or thought ensnare,

Uncertain as the earth is to the sea

And all the foreign life that blossoms there.

Our love is blazoned on my yearning heart,

Each dawn recalls the beauty of your eyes,

My cherished soul's undying counterpart;

Why then these tears, these spirit-rending cries?