The Day You Love

Remember
And tell me
The day you love
Behind a veil of tears
How dreams as these
You dreamt not of
And thought to pass your years
More peaceably than others do
Devoid of common pain
Your own company pleased you
And as you heard complain
Of those small hurts that never heal
And scar their victims deep
You oft' proclaimed your heart could feel
No love
And sought to keep
Your perfect brow
Untarnished by
The sorrow you would save
Your perfect lips
Unvarnished lie
To kiss might thee enslave
Protected are thy limbs
No fear of deeds
Unseemly grasp thee
Directed by thy perfect ear
No words could hope to clasp thee
Indeed thou will not be enshrined
Will honor no man's name
But in disdain
You are, you'll find
Enshrined all the same
In your defense
You say "not so"
When standeth thee accused
Of hatred for mankind
But O
How hast thou been abused
That such a mortal fear
Could frighten
All your nature wills
So much
So that what might enlighten
Passion
Pity kills
And cannot bear to look upon
A soul you have enraptured
With cruel haste
You bid begone
The fools you have encaptured
Mistake me not
It is unjust
For every lovestruck squire
To claim a heart he hasn't won
But what of your desire?
Can'st thou pretend within thy breast
A beat was ne'er misplaced
And lost somewhere?
Dost thou but jest
To say thou never traced
With trembling fingertips
The image
Of a foreign shore
Embarking on a pilgrimage
To where none touched before?
The most deluded eyes could see
Thou harbor'st in thy frame
A store more rich than most should be
In every sense's flame
That thou dost feel
I know it well
That thou dost weep
I'll swear
That thou dost love
I'll live to tell
If thou would only dare
Remember
And tell me
The day you love
Beyond all this
What truth
Within my counsel lay
And thank me
With a kiss