Love Shall Enshrine

Sept. 29. 2010

I will not take the drink tonight that dulls

Or swallow tablets easing me to sleep

But listen to the rain that softly lulls

This weary heart to rest; I shall not weep

For beauty lost, her ashes in foreign seas

Far from this sleepy town where I alone

Recall her smile, her gentle will to please.

She is taken by the Shade and I atone

For all my moments of forgetfulness

Plodding my way to a destiny unknown,

Returning again to feel her sweet caress.

Will the soul that slowly grows within this breast

Recognize her when it too must leave

And tenderly is taken to its rest?

If so I shall rejoice, no more shall grieve,

For songs of joy and gratitude be mine

When love shall all our future lives enshrine.