Postby Fleur » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:27 pm
A Rondeau Redoublé, written for Raffe Rychmin.
(16790 for 57568)
When I am old and time has dimmed my eyes,
You will be there until the very end.
Our life will shine within that last sunrise,
Through signs of age I never did intend.
Your looks will go, and I will not pretend,
Your mind and sword may rust in slow demise,
But my healed heart will always yours defend,
When I am old and time has dimmed my eyes.
I loved you first in Phila’s graceful guise
But then to Eros did our passion wend;
Despite our love invoking such surprise,
You will be there until the very end.
So year by year do hopes and dreams distend;
The dawn will break, but night at last defies
The morn and quenches it with darker trend.
Our life will shine within that last sunrise.
Disfigured truths can cause no mournful sighs;
When both of us are true, our flaws commend.
This love will be a tribute, our reprise,
Through signs of age I never did intend.
This vision of the future must portend
A certainty there will be no goodbyes.
My faith-lined palm in yours, we will ascend
To Cory’s Plane. Forever in the skies,
When I am old.
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