Song for Elizabeth

To have known the beauty of you
enlivens me to overcome
even my darkest fears.

Yes, your fair, sweet, caring soul
helped a young man to not fear,
love life!
and seek the best that stars
could ever mold.

Absent is a speck of regret
in my soul
for the time
I spent in your arms.

That I never forget
In my mind
The feeling of being near,
being fed by your
Loving soul.

Whether by separation or death,
I knew to be too true:
Recite and know the lover’s curse.
Namely, that loving you meant
I could not fear
The loss of you.

In bliss,
The tears wouldn’t
Accept the dare

Oh,
This, a task I knew
But never did prepare.

I shall never forget, I console,
The affect you had on my soul

It doesn’t mean
I will ever cease
to love you, I see,
but that the experience
of being with you
is a thing
I must always treasure.

I ask of life nothing more
Than if it were to eternally recur
To show me this love not this once
But forever to keep in store

With no regrets,
my forgiving heart
can never dislike you
nor anything you’ve ever done:

My heart will ever
fill my soul
with love for you.
No matter what,
Love’s now a game
I can say that I’ve won.

They may call me naive,
I do not care–
I’ve known a love
so sweet, pure, so rare.

Along my path,
I’ll see flowers and butterflies.
How they’ll remind me of you!
So be it if we might sympathize
Or smile the lovers’ adieu

Should we ever be together again,
Oh, my embrace,
Closed eyes
Peering unto eternity as I stare,
Would paint the sky,
My spirit seen erupting in the air.

Thus was the feeling I had on our first kiss,
And I believe life could perhaps spare a pair.

To sense sweet solace of a life well-lived,
To see beauty everywhere:
I will never appreciate a work of art without first thinking of you,
creative mind so saintly,
So pure, passionate, so very rare.