WITHOUT YOU

What was my fault, oh lord of my heart,

With a fate as this placed in my part?

Turning me down like a reckless old rat,

A soul in embers was torn apart.


A companion i sought but couldn't have had,

A guide as unerring as the sun and the god,

Propriety snatched a love that was comprised,

Of affectionate exchanges and understanding not sacrificed.


Without him, a piano with a key that was lost,

A shivering swallow in the midst of snow and frost.

His presence the burst of warmth at dawn,

In the mesmerizing orchards, a frolicking fawn.


A worry that wants to surge into his feelings,

Willing to forsake the world's ways and unreasonable proceedings,

A queen's desire for a switch of lives,

A commoner's role for a love to be revived.