Midnight Meeting
When shall I see you again? In a day? A week? A year?
Some say absence makes the heart grow fonder
But for me it brings despair and loneliness.
My faith deserts me, my courage fails, my spirits darken
Until they can lower no more.
Then, like a heavenly figure,
in those few, precious moments before sleep,
You enter, brightening my night's imagination.
I am with you for a day,
one thousand lifetimes, a moment, all at once.
I pray for no end to this midnight meeting,
But then, just as suddenly as you arrived, you vanish.
And in your place you leave
the despair and loneliness that are all too familiar.
Yet, now in my heart I keep you and our memory.
Though it was just a dream it is an image of you I keep,
An image which erases all unhappiness for just a moment
As I wait for the day that we shall be together.
Be it in this life or the next,
I will wait until I can stay in your arms forever,
And I shall be happy for eternity.
