Song For Lori (Lori, My Lady, My One True Love) Poem by Bryan Norton

DEAR Lori, my lady, my darling divine
My vision of beauty, my radiant shine
More pretty to see than the tulips you bring
That bloom just for me in the sips of your Spring

YOUR lips are the dells of the wells that I drink
The pink in the blues of the bells in my sink
The sweet summer smells in the fragrance of rose
That rise in the swells of the scents in my nose

THE sparkle in view is the dew on my lawn
Remarkable too in the blue of my dawn
The magic of you is the fun in your eyes
A trick that you play on the one you surprise

YOUR love is the season I savor in Fall
The very same reason I favor them all
The way that you trust me is part of your way
To say that you must be the heart of my day

THE bubble you burst is my pride of command
The trouble you cursed by the chide of my band
The fool that is me is no true folly dodger
Perhaps what you see is a blue Jolly Roger

THE stain of my sin is the shame that I wear
The pain I am in for the blame that I bear
The feign of a grin is the game that we play
To gain with a win for the claim that we pay

DEAR Lori, my lady, my pleasure in life
Your love is the treasure I seek in a wife
Your trust is the measure of whether we last
A must in the tether of future and past

TO 'bide in your glow is to bask in your light
The side that you show for the task that is right
The row that we hoe in our quest to succeed
Will slow in the flow of the rest that we need

THE sorrow of loss is the second you try
To borrow the cross for the minute you cry
The sting that we lack in our struggle ahead
Will bring us right back to our snuggle in bed

THE lonely all week have no time for remiss
But only your cheek is sublime to a kiss
The rapture I seek is no climb of regret
To capture the peak of a crime to forget

THE blame that you sow is my seed of mistrust
A flame that you throw at my deed of disgust
The kindness you show by the smile I see
Is something you grow by the mile for me

DEAR Lori, my lady, the one I adore
I beg thee, to take me, and love me once more
My love and devotion are all I can give
But time is the truth in the way that I live.