Lovéd moon
Junipers and midnight flowers,
Both brought forth by faerie powers.
Surrounds her and her lover’s grasp,
Wishing night would forever last.
Gently watched by lovéd moon,
Waiting for the sunlight soon
To be upon the loving pair,
Basking in the midnight air,
Free of all worried cares.
She stares into her lover’s eyes,
Deep and dark as midnight skies,
Just on kiss and one tear fall,
She wakes to find he’s not there at all.
It’s been a dream in her young mind,
She dreamt of love both true and kind.
She’s fall’n asleep beside their tree,
That first they did each other see,
And fell in love and gave their hearts,
Gave promises to never part.
She thinks of his last good-bye,
Underneath the clear night sky,
When he said he’d be home soon,
No later than the next full moon.
Two moons later she sits in wait,
From dawn until the time is late.
Seasons change and years fly by,
Leaving her with thoughts of ‘why?’
And ‘what has happened to cause him time,
One more moon and he should be mine.’
Yet that was years and years ago,
What happened to him, she does not know.
But finally her love returns!
But saddened as he quickly learns,
That she hath died one moon before,
Without her seeing him once more.
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His heart broken he runs away,
Not to return another day,
To the woods and to their tree,
Quickly towards he now flees.
He stops beside the great old tree,
And falls quickly to his knees.
And rests his head upon the bark,
In the still midnight dark.
Sleep and dreams upon him flow,
And in his dream and then he knows,
She is there,
She is near.
They dance again as lovers do,
Watched again by lovéd moon.
Friday, July 01, 2005
© Kathryn Duncan | 
