Maple Trees
I want to be alone with you
Beneath the shade of maple trees
And offer love where love is due
Without time’s hefty, hollow fees.
I want to sleep on summer nights
Within a castle’s ancient walls
And wake with you to see the lights
Of fireflies by the waterfalls.
I want to see the cherries bloom
When winter paves the way to spring
And clouds of rain make ample room
To nature’s bards, who play and sing.
I want no quarrel with the world,
And far from it my thoughts are borne
When sweetest dreams are warm and furled
In bliss with neither weight nor form.
I want a place beneath the stars,
Where I can peer into the void,
To places where there are no wars
Or where my fate I could avoid.
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