Me and the Moon and the Music - A Poem

Me, and the moon, and the music

Share our one company tonight -

Just me, and the moon, and the music -

Rememb'ring when things were right...

 

One summer's dance, one fine evening,

Beneath silver light of moon pale,

A melody floating around me,

Like winds 'round a ship's ready sail,

 

Just me and my love stepping softly

Around a half-deserted floor -

Just us, and the moon, and the music -

How could I have ever wished for more?

 

Me, and the moon, and the music

Remember that time long ago,

When we, and the moon, and the music

Had times lit with Love's golden glow.

 

One sits at this table for two now,

While the moon and the music do thrive.

Me waiting alone here for someone -

Someone who will never arrive...

 

But still, all the same, I wait lone here,

Gazing up at the stars in the sky,

This night, and its moon, and its music

Recalling the stars in her eyes.

 

Me, and the moon, and the music

Know in vain that here waiting we stay.

Still I wait with the moon and the music,

Before both do fly far out away...

 

The stars in the sky now are fading,

The moon is on the hilltop's rim,

The last harmony of the music

Is slowing and growing now dim.

 

The silver light reflects before me,

Right before it lowers its head,

The melody's last few small notes

Now into night's silence have bled...

 

Me, and the moon, and the music

All but flee at the sunlight's first tear.

Now I see not the moon or the music -

They both have abandoned me here.

 

Only echoes are playing inside me,

Like the fragrance of flowers now gone.

The light remains just in my memr'y,

For, it too vanished with come of dawn.

 

Still one at this table for two,

This one fool who waited in vain.

I know that the second won't come,

But somehow to this spot I am chained...

 

For me, and the moon, and the music,

All but the mem'ry has flown.

I, abandoned by moon and by music,

Linger on, forever alone.