Other Side of the Riverbed

On the silent riverbed, she stood
Where the softer wind had blown
Against the ground, she glistered star's light 
And eclipsed nature's splendor grown

Yet beauty tempted not my interest
Though her allure gleams upon thrones
But a sorrowful sound out her breath
Revealed a sorrow unknown

With the edge of elegy, she sung
A celestial kiss of tone
Heard angelic gentle melodies
And had my bleeding heart sewn

A mortal, mortally mesmerized
My reality away thrown
In fanciful fret, fraud my own heart
To lust for a heart of stone  

Was she a more perfect life than He
So to have been disowned?
Belle of heaven, curse my tenderness
But let me join in atone

In that frigid callousness of night
Her divine shine has shown
That the saddest thing for an angel  
Is for her to shine alone

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012



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Date: 5/10/2016 10:05:00 PM
cHRISTOPHER, you have a great way of expressing yourself through poetry, XOX ~LINDA~
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Date: 5/8/2016 3:07:00 AM
CHRISTOPHER, this is an awesome poem, thank you for sharing. *SKAT
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Date: 8/2/2012 1:05:00 AM
Like this one a lot, well done xx
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