To A Lady I Once Knew

Upon the winds of fate I wandered, one...

No harbor called me home, a fearful dread

My constant friend, an emptiness, dark sun...

I thought that I'd be better off quite dead.

And then, from out of gloom you did appear,

My heart was born away upon a wing,

I trembled, could not breathe, with you so near,

I'd found my queen, with you I could be king!

Together we rode high upon the waves,

But at the crest your ornament shown through,

A mighty castle crashed as if a wave,

Had tried to show the world just what was true.

And now, at sea again, bereft and tossed,

My soul laced not with gold, but yet embossed!