Love Once Found

The great hands have turned another year

And I look back, not forward as I must

Hold sacred the remembrance of things dear

And beauty that once wedded me, now dust.

A single path we found as ours to pace

And under foreign skies that were our own,

For love is an eternity of grace

A field of flowers, fragrant, richly sown.

I cannot speak for those who walk alone,

Not knowing if love's fire burned as mine,

But this I'll say, not more, now love is gone,

Her coming was a gift the more divine

For that we grew as one above all pain,

Such love once found shall find itself again.