Sentimental Dream

@Uootem

So long ago... in a far away time and space
I gazed into the love I envisioned in your eyes
as if it were actually written all over your face
and there I saw all promised tomorrows...
silver-lined clouds and clear blue skies
didn't see the creation of such regrets and the sorrows.

but that future was not really meant to be
for our time was as brief as that single moment
the clouds of sky are so high and there is depth in the sea
and we were as different as the air and the water
yet didn't understand what the inherent densities meant
I the son of Oirsis, and you... Posiden's daughter.

Still our promises where filled with things I could take
a white picket fence surrounding a cozy house on a hill,
colorful flowers in a garden... with a view of a lake,
a white dress you would wear, your voice my pleasing sound
and evenings spent by the fire that burns inside still
if we have found all that, there could have been happiness all around.

As promised, I would have read my poetry to you...
beautiful verses with words so different from those written now
all about a sentimental existence that should have come true
their meanings full of lasting love we could have shared
if we had found a way to make what we had last somehow
and we could have grown old knowing each other cared.

And as promised there could have been such perfect love
as we walked hand in hand through each new day
and spent every night counting the stars that shine above
you would be carrying armfuls of flowers... and me another sonnet
and you would bring to me with all that I cherished,

That was my sentimental dream.

It does not seen so long ago... I dreamed the impossible.
and I knew our future would happen for us
that we would share those evenings by the fire
in everlasting, perfect love... that we spoke so passionately about
but dreams don't always fulfill ... for I am not with you today.
and my poetry must speak of this my sentimental truth.