I sit and ponder days gone by
Forgotten feelings, low and high...

Wind-swept years have slipped away
Since last I glimpsed your lambent face...

Love, so sweet and strange a thing
To make men cry, to make men sing...

I see the hills and empty fields
Encased in dusty hue...

Too long it's been since last we met
That beautiful muse and I...

I've lost my faith in life and love,
In honesty and pride...

**For my Battle Buddies at Basic Training**
A ragged band so young, diverse...

**I wrote this poem for a friend for her new...
I've looked and waited, wondering lost...

In a soft and silent, endless night,
Whilst the weary world yet sleeps...

I've spent and wasted life and love,
Endured the pain, found no relief...

I see the world through tainted eyes;
Love, illusion, truth, and lies...

When last we spoke the dragons wrath was ended,
And our hero home returned...