Once I Did Love You Poem by John Lars Zwerenz

In the summery eve, among the brush,
I trailed through reeds and grasses lush
With the somnolent scent of a symphony.
In the grotto by the starry sea,
I swam with phantoms gleefully,
All the time in love with you.
Now the eminent skies of an azure hue,
Tossed here and there by a straying, gray billow
Speaks only your name,
Above the oak and the willow.
And I shall never be the same,
Having loved you as I did in the glade,
In the sighing wood, clothed in shade,
When your raven tresses thrilled me and made
The amber dawn on the russet lawn
Reveal you as a queen, and me as a pawn.