You Did Not Remain (#6)

I saw you in the nights and in my fervent dreams
And tasted sweetly on the branch
And felt the wind of change embrace
But you did not remain.

And in the nature of the time
With clarity abandoned now
In keeping with this wretched theme
You did not remain.

Now it is nothing that you left
But everything to me
And though I dreamed of you so long
You still did not remain.

I look above and thank the one
Who made us both to be
And though it went not quite so well
Still, you did not remain with me.

With such and such a time gone on
And hearts no longer beating true
The beast set free perhaps too late
For you did not remain.

Be still and know that you were wrong
I tell myself tonight
And in the dark I hear a song
But you did not remain.