TIME WAS

Time was when you would enter

That door and I would be

No longer in the darkness

Upon the sea,

Sailing through lowering tempest

Of thoughts within the brain....

If that could be so

Ever again....

Time was when your slight gesture

Would bid the fairies dance

And make the world a twilight

Of woodland trance,

And wake old aching music

All honey through its pain....

If that could be so

Ever again....

Time was when I would flout you

With clever something said —

And could not live without you

When you turned your head.

With me you walked the sunlight,

With me you walked the rain....

If that could be so

Ever again....