“Goodnight fair lady”,
Those words I said to you,
As the page closed on
Our chapter, which began
In the early morning dew,
What have we become but
Simply curiosities passing in the bright,
Oh my darling the stars never blazed
Like when I found you that fateful night.
When you left the cold came,
And tore me limb from limb,
Yet when we meet again someday,
It’ll be with a smile and a chin chin.
When the sun rises in the west
We will be lovers once more,
As for all the rest, it belongs
To a more historical lore,
On that fateful sunset
When love and hate collided,
Part of me was vanquished
The place where you resided.
Did the ancients have this problem,
Of loves awful greatness?
Did King David brood on his throne
Broken and Elated?
Now I have seen the future
And see a mighty journey,
And see the passions still to be pledged
To the oceans and the sky,
To the birds in their trees,
To the sharks in their seas,
And the pilgrim on their knees,
Waiting for a miracle.
All shall be seen and all
Shall be conquered,
Yet now and then I’ll
Look back and remember you
Fondly, as more than a curiosity
Simply as a friend.
Then you’ll look back to me,
And say with the simplest of beauty,
“Thank you good sir”.