The Web Poetry Corner - Ronald G. Auguste - Rose of my Dreams
Rose of my Dreams
by
Ronald G. Auguste
Though you may bloom, still, from afar,
How can no loss, or discontent,
Engage me, as the fire went,
Receding like a falling star --
Eclipsed by time, burned out and spent?
Spring is long gone, and Summer's seen
All of our gardens growing old;
My Fall is scarcely flecked with gold,
As Winter sneaks upon the green,
Reducing ardour in the cold.
You've bloomed in dreams upon my ways,
Since Spring, when I was out of speech;
Uncourted, you grew out of reach.
Rose of my dreams, now all my days
Are filled by fears your Prophets preach.
Green are the gardens where we grew.
Each bloom still bears a scent of you.