Old Woman’s Love Song

For what I was and still am wont to be,

I have no one to thank for setting free

The dream of love and hope of dreams to come

But you, whose constant love has led me home.

When sodden thoughts and grey dreams gather in,

Your hand, your eyes, your words forever win

Me back from sullen days of heaviness

And build the path back to clear happiness.

The darkness of the past has given way

To this bright world in which our work is play;

So, contrast-framed, our open present lies

Beneath the clear sweetness of lovers’ skies.

Between what was and what is yet to be

Lie hope and faith and love for you in me.