Song ("Take the moment...")
Loss
Yes, I have gone as far from you as death,
Though you still live, and I am not a shade;
But I am cold, and on my heart a breath
Of icy distance cuts me like a blade.
You are so little to me that I turn
Unmoved and deaf to the echo of your voice,
Though once in truth the very sound could burn
Into my veins like fire-I had no choice.
What has become then of the love I knew?
Was it a shadow from a greater sun?
And now the sun is gone, and in its path
'The flame is lacking that has warmed us two;
As if a day that blazed to noon were done,
Chilled by the wind of some malicious wrath.
SONG
Take the moment as it flies,
And do not ask to know
If love that builds beyond the hour
Would have more to show.
Love that is compact of thought
Is a snare and a cheat;
Love that builds on dream and pride
Builds its own defeat.
Alice Corbin
Love that thinks to hold and save
Wins a beggar's grave-
Love that wastes its starry heaven
Has the heaven it gave.
Alice Corbin
Structure
30 lines · 4 stanzas