Once Here, Once Gone

Incredible beauty but a short-lived romance.

I looked into your emerald eyes and leaned forward

caught in a pensive dream

of a grassy field left untouched, stirred only by the breeze

and of a pond in mid-July, vivid green

in the summer heat -- but though this reverie entranced me

with colour, life and sound,

it was your lips, like satin-skinned tulips,

that heated my blood and made my heart soar.

We, two continents of experience,

had collided and our cultures merged;

and when the tides carried us apart once more,

I was adrift in murky waters which I had known before --

and though you were home, and I outside your door,

indifference had taken you far from my shore.

Yet still I knocked at your door

beneath a summer's moon that bathed

the high, half-reaped field in pale blue luster,

and I asked violently to the night: How could she

leave my love only half-discovered?

You let me know your gypsy-lore:

once here and once gone;

and I would have traveled the world with that wild love

chasing your skin, your smiles and the stars above.

Author's Note

I tried to make this poem rhyme! :) Please leave a review.