Our Own Serenade (Refrain Stanza Sequence) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Percy Bysshe Shelley)

I
I did have a lovely dream of you
as if to life it was really true
while outside the stars were bright
and we were in rapture and delight
where afterwards the thought did me pursue
as if really last night we did meet
and your voice was pleasant and sweet
and I loved you and you did love me too
as if to life it was really true

II
and in the room now your fragrance is faint
while outside the weavers twitter without complaint
still runs the bubbling yet otherwise silent stream
and I am sure that it had been a dream
but then it was without any restraint
while this morning small signs of you do remain
and in my heart there is happiness and no pain
where with the daily duties I do myself acquaint
while outside the weavers twitter without complaint

III
and in thought in moment to that bliss I am back again
where you kisses poured down on me like rain
so overwhelming that I am speechless in how life is
and if I do not know love then it must be like this
as if the effects of it I do forever retain
while you were truly with me and mine
and it was something past the divine
and of thought of that experience I cannot abstain
where you kisses poured down on me like rain

[Reference:"The Indian Serenade" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.]

© Gert Strydom