A Lesson From Love (To Joy Elaine Wellington)

It did not seem so then, but O I wish again I could spend those days of joy with you For there I learned that joy is just a rain That must disappear sometime that a dew May sparkle on a rose And a cloud may have meaning in our woes You left me when in the drought of love, so Would learn not to hold too tightly when I pick a rainbow from the ground. I was slow To heed, and O the pains my body rend But true love never goes Unless it comes again, it is the way river flows. I held you too tightly when we met, and so you Left me to refresh your breath. You came Again so I would forgive: love returns when it's true But I thought you a spirit no man could tame The way we think is why we lose Love is the river, you the water that there flows.