II.

Against my lips sweet lies of love thou mouth’,
Lines learnt by heart in the deepest of nights,
Rehearsed, untrue, made to bend my weakened soul
To thou, whose being I shall forever worship.
Thine is the voice I hear within my dreams,
It draws my smile when days look cold and grim.
Searching for a beauty untold I found,
Feathers of this Gabriel among mortals,
who stayed on Earth, but is wanted in Heaven.
Whilst I stare at thy form through hard, unyielding glass
And seek, teary-eyed, upon the mighty starred sky
A sign that Death will not too soon take me
So that I might behold thine kiss once more
I pray – wonder - are thou real or thought?