The Scent of Lavender

Slowly and majestically
Fades light from time of day
The colors and the shadows
Merge into one embrace
As night doth fall
On tender ebon wing

 

The candle's flame dances madly
From draft and trembling hand
As I roam and as I shuffle
From room to room
Trying, vainly, not to think
Of her

 

She whom my mouth curses
And my heart cries out to
She who lies in cold repose
Beauty undimmed in memory only
She who broke the promise made
A double score ago

 

Soon time, my resolute master
Hastens me to slumber
And as night before
Battle is waged
Sleep always the victor
And I succumb, the vanquished
The pillow still smells of her scent
Her sachet

 

Lavender

 

Lavender surrounds me
The field is rendolent of it
The soft green grasses caress my legs
AS I travel deeper
To her
As always I once did

 

To forest clearing, to forest glen
I approach in muted sounds
There she lies in all her graven finery
Upon a bier of stone
Green eyes hidden by closed lids
Auburn hair cascading to the ground
By the god, I love her still

 

CAMILLE

 

Her name alone causes me to shiver
And to speak her name aloud
Would cause me to weep with joy, with loss
At the sound
For an eternity I gaze at her
Her eyes open and I can not bear it
In the blink of mine eye, I look away

 

Without a word she rises
Daintily, gracefully, she walks into a copse
Helplessly, hopelessly,brokenly I follow
For I know what is coming
For soon it will end, as is always does
She will disappear and I will wake
Alone...and waiting
With both dread and anticipation
Of the next night's journey

 

But I am surprised

 

She does not disappear
She stops and holds out her hand
I reach out with wonder
My hand no longer of age
But of youth

 

She laughs, her musical litlting laugh
And I bravely look into her face
"Come my love, come my heart, come my very own"
Her lyrical voice entices
And I put my hand in hers

 

Our hands so clasped
Our hearts entwined
We head into the ether
And all around us
The scent of lavender