The Day You Love

Remember
 And tell me
 The day you love
 Behind a veil of tears
 How dreams as these
 You dreamt not of
 And thought to pass your years
 More peaceably than others do
 Devoid of common pain
 Your own company pleased you
 And as you heard complain
 Of those small hurts that never heal
 And scar their victims deep
 You oft' proclaimed your heart could feel
 No love
 And sought to keep
 Your perfect brow
 Untarnished by
 The sorrow you would save
 Your perfect lips
 Unvarnished lie
 To kiss might thee enslave
 Protected are thy limbs
 No fear of deeds
 Unseemly grasp thee
 Directed by thy perfect ear
 No words could hope to clasp thee
 Indeed thou will not be enshrined
 Will honor no man's name
 But in disdain
 You are, you'll find
 Enshrined all the same
 In your defense
 You say "not so"
 When standeth thee accused
 Of hatred for mankind
 But O
 How hast thou been abused
 That such a mortal fear
 Could frighten
 All your nature wills
 So much
 So that what might enlighten
 Passion
 Pity kills
 And cannot bear to look upon
 A soul you have enraptured
 With cruel haste
 You bid begone
 The fools you have encaptured
 Mistake me not
 It is unjust
 For every lovestruck squire
 To claim a heart he hasn't won
 But what of your desire?
 Can'st thou pretend within thy breast
 A beat was ne'er misplaced
 And lost somewhere?
 Dost thou but jest
 To say thou never traced
 With trembling fingertips
 The image
 Of a foreign shore
 Embarking on a pilgrimage
 To where none touched before?
 The most deluded eyes could see
 Thou harbor'st in thy frame
 A store more rich than most should be
 In every sense's flame
 That thou dost feel
 I know it well
 That thou dost weep
 I'll swear
 That thou dost love
 I'll live to tell
 If thou would only dare
 Remember
 And tell me
 The day you love
 Beyond all this
 What truth
 Within my counsel lay
 And thank me
 With a kiss