Sonnet 15 [at long last]
The Lady smiles when she sees
his face
Look down on her with love
inside his eyes,
She sleeps to dream of him
under his gaze
She wakes to laugh with him
at each sunrise.
A time he was not hers? -
A memory
That fades away in every velvet
kiss;
His silken hands now are her
reverie
His constancy the source of
all her bliss.
And when he's gone and she
is all alone
She carries his heart with
her, in her thoughts
She revels in the beauty she
has known,
The joy that she has found
what she has sought -
For in
his eyes, his touch, is everything:
The present,
past, and what the future brings.
So this is a flagrant love poem. So sue me. Poets can't always be fraught with tragedy, you know.