(Originally written August 10, 2010)

“Show me a memory, a blissful thought,”
The words kept playing over and over,
“Speak to me kind words of happiness wrought,”
In my mind, as I the past remember.

“A vision of thine angelic features,”
Which haunted my mind since I last saw you,
“A melody of wisdom and rapture,”
Your voice in my mind, ringing as if new.

“Au revoir,” I said, this is not goodbye,”
I know that someday, we will meet again,
“I love you,” I recall, was my last try,
True love, from which I can never refrain.

Yes, I had my plans to see you erelong,
But an upheaval I did not foresee,
Shattered them all, and for you now I long,
“Soon” is now not as soon as it can be.

And now, somewhere distant, your life goes on,
While without you, long ago, mine had stopped,
Gone was the color, gone the golden sun,
Gone the moonlight, my days with storm clouds topped.

As I content myself to think ’bout you,
I began wond’ring: do you think of me?
Is’t too bold to think? But it may be true,
I’m clinging to the hope of what could be.

Did you ever, if once, pause in the day,
And find thoughts of me entering your mind?
Or during the night, while in bed you lay,
Before you sleep, is it me that you find?

Did you ever do or look at something,
Or been somewhere that invoked my mem’ry?
Just once, even that’s better than nothing,
Does it happen? If so, how frequently?

I beg your pardon, if I dare too much,
If my questions had repulsed you one score,
But if “yes” you said to just one of such,
Then same for me, and a thousand times more!

From the time I wake ’til the set of sun,
At the turn of each hour, for days on end,
Your thought on my mind ne’er ceases to run,
No, not one second, though the ears may wend!

And on this ‘nother lonely afternoon,
I’ve decided to pen my feelings down,
Fearing if I hold it, then someday soon,
In my longing for you, my heart will drown!

And so now I beg you, please bear with this,
Just your mere thought inspires these reveries.