Love Poem: I Dreampt of You
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Written by: Jasmine Cruz

I Dreampt of You

( I DREMPT OF YOU )
                                                                                                                 I dreamed your face, one night, when Heaven seemed resting,
against the troubled fever of the earth.
I dreamed that vivid throated birds were nesting,
in trees that shook with elfin-hearted mirth.
I dreamed that star-like purple flowers were springing,
a-throb with perfume all about the place.
And that there was a far-off sound of singing,
and then--I dreamed your face.

I dreamed your face, and then I waked from dreaming,
(The creeping dawn seemed very cold and bare!).
The rising sun seemed pallid in its beaming,
because its coming did not find you there.
And I--I rose despondent in the morning,
as one whose burning thirst has not been slaked.
I dreamed your face, a wonder world adorning,
and then--I waked.

And so I went upon a quest to find you,
a quest that led through many bitter years.
I journeyed far with strands of love to bind you,
and found, not you, but bitterness and tears.
So I returned, discouraged, through the gloaming,
my shoulders bowed with weariness unguessed.
I came back, unsuccessful, from my roaming,
my sorry quest.

I had a bit of garden that I tended,
it helped me dream, again, my dream of you.
It was a joyous place of colors blended,
a place where pansies and Sweet William grew.
And one bright day I hummed as I was planting,
a border row of flowers slim and fair.
And raised my eyes to see pale sunlight slanting,
across your hair.