You are the new day

For my wife, Elizabeth:

I found this music, once upon a time
And lost it just as quickly, to my shame.
I could not name it, for this song sublime
Withdrew, and would not deign to give its name.

But Time was kind, and in its time, again
Reminded me of what I had forgot.
It burst upon me, and with such sweet pain
That I had almost lost what is my lot.

And so I give it to you, and I hope
that it might please you, more, that it might show
A way that we might live, in ways above

The days that we have fought, and could not cope;
Instead, that we might live and start to know
(or else remember) all the ways of love.