Poems of Narad

Now You Are Gone

Oh my beloved what further can I say
I have not uttered time and time again
Who face the perils of uncertain day
Now you are gone and I alone remain?

I would not have it thus but words are weak
And powerless without the force to change,
And peace eludes, the Presence that I seek
Though once so near seems now so far and strange,

Elusive as the ageless mystery
No mind can comprehend or thought ensnare,
Uncertain as the earth is to the sea
And all the foreign life that blossoms there.

Our love is blazoned on my yearning heart,
Each dawn recalls the beauty of your eyes,
My cherished soul's undying counterpart;
Why then these tears, these spirit-rending cries?