Nighttide Prayer

This elfin child, the dreamlike girl
Spoke in tones much warmer still
Though broken dreams around her fell
And mouth on mouth sought long to fill

For what we seek not long is found
Before it’s lost again deep underground
Withheld from all the beating hearts of men
Withheld inside this heart I seek to pen

We have suffered long to seek
Of trembling love of which we long to speak,
Yet we are held inside ourselves
As prisoners are inside their cells

Love speaks in eyes, in nightly hours
In cold-held hands
And drinking showers

It speaks in dreams
And dreamer’s tongues
Who long to know what is to come

It speaks in grace of what hath never been
And Grace again withholds what she may mean

It speaks again of warm insides
And faith I shook as warmth betides
As dreamers screaming soft and low
Where lovers’ hands do search to go

Much longer now my dream resides
Than those I’ve often sought to find

For this dreamish girl, her elfin face
Speaks in my mind of her lost grace