Abide

Looked but not half as well

as determined love for half a spell

In leaf blooms forgotten smell

Leapt atop the wishing-well

Forgotten time is nonchalant

Taking never giving what you want

Lazy entertaining sycophant

Mixed akin idiot savant

The hills and shade of Farmer's Field

Awaiting garden shall purpose yield

Knowing nonsense yet to be revealed

He uses daydreams as effective shield

As the night conceals the day

By saying all the dark things it would say

We are left with silence any old way

Don't be discreet some men would pray

To whisper red or pinkish lips

And raucous curve of rounded hips

In darkened berries he seldom sips

To town so often making trips

For reason none as if by chance

Just polite to reason's circumstance

No cause of wonders or Knight's romance

Hiding all the mystic evidence

The cloud descends first fog to gray

Saying all that smoke would say

Can't paint the picture any other way

The hounds and tweeds of Adelaie

Sheep not noble to Prince do bring 

The Shepherd Crook and fieldstone Ring

Beguiled with whit and dabbling 

To close in harmony each voice would sing

No ear to hear, no mind to pause

Original or perhaps proximate cause

The separation of the locking jaws

Broken dreams and snapping bows

If heart must disengage for right

Let day retrieve its loving Night

And heart be filled to grand respite

This last to be our ending sight

For dreams of love are better still

Than staring out the window sill

With time so bent upon the kill

Pray abide in love don't take the pill