THE HEART MUST WAIT

Who has not dreamed

of one day waking

to find the lost one at the gate

with smiling eyes

to ease heart’s aching

and turn about the blow of fate

Who has not known

the pain of yearning

through daylong hours and night’s

slow pace

To hear the sound

of glad returning

to feel once more the fond embrace

Who has not sighed

as dawn came stealing

to shatter sleep and dreams erase

(that breaking light

such truth revealing:

not now to see the longed-for face)

With hope withdrawn but not forsaking

the heart must wait the promised graces:

Another Time, Another Place

#Mourning