lyric poem

to come so soon to this imagined dark
sweet and strong
in halls of sleep you wandered by
my mother taught me that every night
sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea
so lost
eighty years have passed, and more
i made a vow once, one only
from song and dream for ever gone
in your arms was still delight
stand here by my side
in september
long has the summer sunlight shone
could we but know