Are You Grieving?

Now my darling, are you grieving
Over golden dreams receding?
Are the distant pastures greener as they say?

Do you think of those you’re missing?
Are your gentle lips not kissing?
Do you pen your secret longings every day?

Are you ever feeling lonely
For the one who loved you only—
The one who once your stolid heart did sway?

As you wake from sleep each morning,
Do the time-worn lines give warning?
Can you see the silken curls growing grey?

In the evening by the fire
Does your mind’s eye ever tire
Of roving where the distant memories lay?

As those memories do entreat you
Does a sullen tear now greet you,
Or does cold conscience keep them still at bay?

Does your hardened heart grow tender
When you chance to still remember
How hearts and souls once sang in joyful play?

Or does summer sun now find you
With your youthful hues behind you—
And does your silent mirror friend betray?

How do you greet the morrow
Full of gladness, tinged with sorrow—
With its smile a woeful frown you wear all day?

Does your barren breast now mourn you
For the children who now scorn you—
Did you ever dream it all would end this way?

Loubert S Suddaby poems