This Poem was Submitted By: Nagaina Myles On Date: 2001-03-31 02:29:11 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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In All the Dark Gardens

I still see you in all the dark gardens Of the world; on the black roads; In the closed flowers, Whitely sleeping; In the curled leaves Being silvered by moonlight. Is that your shadow by A pale fence? Robed, silent, Deep against false brightness, Beckoning with those fair hands? Is it your dark form that waits In the shade of a grey tree? It is not- once again, I am mistaken; The shadow turns to dust at dawn. And the dark form fades, But in my hopeful remembrance, Where it will live as who I thought, at last, it was. I still see you in all the dark gardens Of the world. But no- It's better if you never come To meet me in my midnight thought. You, beautiful dream, reduced to bones! Shrouded in sadness, and flowers, and dirt. Yet still I seek you In each dark garden that I walk through, Wanting the impossible, afraid to speak, Lest what speaks back is your ghost. Perhaps we'll meet yet by the trailing roses, Under petals, on that last dark road.

Copyright © March 2001 Nagaina Myles


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