A Pilgrim's Progress

Should Love that's absent redefine The Love I dream? Let Love that's mine Bend life more toward a leafy glade Where wonderment can find some shade! What Love means more, a missing kiss I'm promised (by a sundry miss) Or (path not taken)'s coolness where A rising moisture perfumes air. Please let me pass all ground that shakes, Give wider berth to land that bakes And heights where snow lives all year round. Near daffodils, more souls get found! Oh, let me hear the speech of trees, Though I don't grow to reach their knees, This voice, not join leaves' praise at all - Bloom poetry before earth's fall! Long Tooth June 26th in 2019