++ Promise Unfulfilled ++

As I dug my old folder, I found some unfinished poems that I started writing ages ago. So I thought I'd finish it, though there might be a change of 'feel' in the middle XD. So here is one of them:

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You said, “Cry not my love,
Today we may not be,
But we will meet again,
In the Garden of Peace.

Where we will sit side by side,
On vast green, and soft carpet,
Embroidered with a thousand,
Of flowers in full blossom.

There will linger the sweet scent,
Of the ripe and tender fruits,
Of all kinds, all near to hands,
Made abundant to us twain.

Then chirping birds, gushing springs,
And hushing breeze we will hear,
As they joyfully sing for,
The day you and I, are One.

Eternal companions, we will be.”

Those words I have held on to,
But now blurred is the vision,
Of the Garden I once beheld,
When you kissed me a farewell.

Do you know, the hands of time,
Have ever since pulled me down,
To the depth of despair,
And Peace I upheld no more?

The calm water then turned into fire,
That burned and consumed me from within,
Now I behold a barren, dying field,
Where one hopes not for redemption.

Tell me, my long lost Love,
Will you and I still be?
Will there still be a way,
For me to be, where you are?

Original: Sydney, 25th March 2011
Finalised: Sydney, 12 September 2011, 10:58pm