I saw her in the moonlight
Bathed by the white
Of the pale waning
moon
And I was moonstruck
An angelic vision
A moonchild of the
night
Smiled a knowing smile
And then she took my
hand
Beneath the splendour
Of the starlit sky
I took her in my arms
And I felt her tremble
And there we stood
In the magic of the
starlight,
Where we fell in love
Where we were
moonstruck
Seeing you that first time
Was like looking at a
picture
A familiar picture
A favourite, dog eared
picture
Often viewed, often
handled
A picture of someone
special
But we had never met
Yet there you were
A familiar picture
A picture in my mind
In my heart, in my
soul
A familiar stranger
Who recognizes me
I saw you and I knew
That I wanted you
I held you and I knew
That I was in love
with you
I kissed you and I
knew
That no other would do
Don’t we all fantasize?
Of that perfect love
That would grace our
life
A love that is so
special
It would be
immortalized
In the sonnets of the
bard
I lost you
And at the moment
Of deaths knell
A well spring of tears
Unbridled,
Relentlessly fell
You took me down off the shelf
You taught me to laugh
at myself
You taught me to dance
and sing
With the joy of
songbirds on the wing
You taught me
everything I knew
Except how to live
without you
It was in the spring
Beneath the canopy of
oak boughs
Where you kissed me
for the first time
It was in the summer
In the dappled shade
of the same oak
Where you said I do
It was in the autumn
Beneath the falling
leaves of oak
Where you were laid to
sweet repose
Now it’s winter
And the oak boughs are
as empty as my life
But soon I will join
you dear wife
