I've Always Loved You

I believe in a time that once there was
so long, so long ago-
when evening fell and came along
with all the flaming stars in tow;
And somehow two young children found
a place they now no longer know.

The moon was shining full and bright
and it that night drove them to sleep:
and while they slept so far apart
the moon did start upon the deep
to form a silver path away
toward lands of neverending day.

It was that night they found in Sleep
the silver path across the deep
that beckoned to them both, somehow.
And though they knew each other not
their single, shared, o'erwhelming thought
was let us walk together now!

So hand in hand they traveled on
to lands where no one else has gone;
invited guests of Fate and Destiny!
A dark-skinned boy both brave and true,
and a girl with eyes a sweet sea-blue
with a voice as lovely as could be.

They traveled on together there
and saw the things they wished to see.
For her, he was a brave white knight
and a stately queen for him was she.
And still, they traveled hand in hand
throughout that land, that place so fair
where dreams come true! They wandered on
and came to love each other there.

And often there they'd go in sleep
while dreams were deep and Moon was bright:
and often there the two would meet
on any given summer night.
But there came a time beyond recall
when dreams became as leaves in Fall
and fluttered off to field and fen.
The two of them had older grown,
and all those lands they once had known
would never ever come again.

But still, they remembered being there
his tangled hair, hers curling free!
Those sapphire eyes he loved to see!
His dark and rugged features bare!
The hands he held! Her face so fair!
Came always back to she and he.

And thus they oft tried going back
by searching for that magic track
but never did it come again to sight.
Though that land would ne'er again be seen
she often thought about her silver knight
and he never did forget his faerie queen!

One day, a fateful meeting came;
a young man and a lovely lass.
They traded now their dreams for fame
and their crayons for a college class.
So much time had since then passed,
but finally the time was right!
And when we met, we knew at last,
You were my queen, and I, your knight!