I stood beside you in a dream
\nSaw your hand raised and a smile
\nSpread through your beloved face
\nThough, all the while
\nDuring that time I had with you
\nSuch details passed unobserved
\nAs one familiar day o’erlay the next;
\nAnd now within that twilight World
\nYou never knew, or knew no other,
\nWith my three score years and ten
\nIn what is called the seventies;
\nWith short term memory wrecked,
\nAnd musings on the distant past,
\nAre they only foundations that secure?<\/p>\n
It’s a different World, not the one you left
\nOr the one you are now in;
\nIt’s a World of waiting to leave,
\nFor the doorway of Divine love to open wide
\nAnd greet another refugee
\nWith smiling welcome.
\nDid you know this when you left willingly
\nAnd what I grudgingly depart?
\nPerhaps you came to the wrong World and
\nMissed by the angels, they came to call you back,
\nWhile I, who learned to calculate the odds
\nLet no one take me for a ride.
\nBut we reap in this World
\nThe good or evil we have sown
\nAs, when Saturn returns there is no escape
\nAnd into the fire of force and will
\nIs cast your sacrifice.<\/p>\n
September 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I stood beside you in a dream Saw your hand raised and a smile Spread through your beloved face Though, all the while During that time I had with you Such details passed unobserved As one familiar day o’erlay the … Continue reading