Love Dwelt in Me Awhile

I lay broken like a broken toy

Tossed on the garbage heap of humanity.

Love dwelt in my awhile and I knew joy

And now I cast her ashes to the sea.

Years of solitude and grief-stained hours

In the tormented heart no calm has grown,

I walk among the trees, the offered flowers

But find no peace, troubled and alone.

On leaving she has risen very high

And in some heavenly ether finds her rest

But here on earth I seek the how and why

So soon must leave the beautiful and blessed.