Lover's Lullaby

 

The crowd can't see my longing

                Nor he I show the pain,

But only a face belonging

                To the sun and not the rain.

 

Till he comes again,

I beg through my days to sleep.

                Till he comes again,

Softly I sing through my nights

A lover's lullaby and weep.

 

I lose myself in dancing

                And music that dulls the pain.

Bring back a world entrancing--

                Don't let me love in vain.

 

Till he comes again,

I beg through my days to sleep.

                Till he comes again,

Softly I sing through my nights

A lover's lullaby and weep.

 

Our love we must share in secret,

                And we steal the time we keep,

Pretending there's no other;

                Pretending our hearts are free.

 

Till he comes again,

Be still my sad heart in sleep.

                If he comes again,

Hush my lover's lullaby

And hold still forever my grief.

 

 

Barbara Benjamin                                                                                   

Rhymed quatrain

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