Remembrance (After Christina Rossetti) Poem by Meng Lim Dr

After Christina Rossetti

I'd rather you rejoice and smile
than sigh in my permanent absence
past sweet memories to keep
in your remembrance -

such beauty and consolation
it is-- in this uninterruptible silence
watched over by the tender moon and stars
beyond the pale of earthly confusion-

nightly in my longing dreams
I'll delight in your presence
not a single need be spoken
as children in purest innocence -

there's no darkness in this ever-land
only the dazzling light in truest resplendence
I'm still by your side as the days of long ago
as our hearts mingle in eternal radiance