Love, As Dreamt By Two Poem by Mandy Chen

(female)
Dream a little dream of me,
that is my humble plea.
A little curiosity is better than
None.

(male)
Please don't look at me with such
pleading eyes,
I am just a wanderer,
free and careless

(female)
I have seen you from afar,
rooted as I am to the ground.
You, wandering butterfly
teasing and torturing me so!

(male)
I have never known love
And so forgive me
When I left you,
I cannot reward you
with a backward glance

(female)
In spring you come and claim my
heart,
Winter-you are not here to taste my tears

(male)
Summer, autumn and winter,
My back is heavy from
bearing your heart
'Can I let go? '
I asked myself,
The answer-forgive me!
stopped me
and the weary journey

(female)
The Sun is setting, the icy mouth
of the wind bellowed- Alas! -everything
is fading.
Still no you.
I wait and wait
stay and stay
Till I collapse,
Buried in the cruel snow.

(male)
And therefore darling, I buried
your heart in the snow
Then,
I looked to the bellowing wind
and dreamt for a moment of
you smiling in the spring sun,
Heartlessly
ignorant
That when I buried your heart,
I buried your lovely corpse as well.

(female)
Dream a little dream of me,
that is my humble plea.