en ciel un dieu, par terre une déesse
How wonderful love was, when it was real and true,
When love was honest, open, poetic and beautiful.
How wonderful was the sky with its simplistic blue,
Born by a sun giving streams of color and coolness of dew.
I wish for a time when fear was hardly looked upon,
Like an occasional storm that might ruin and destroy the day.
I wish to reemerge as a child when there was nothing but fun,
Where the day could be mine to run around in the grasses and play.
I wish to regain my innocence and my fresh look of life,
When each day brings forth a fresh start and also something new.
I wish to have a field for a harvest and maybe a virgin for a wife
To taste fresh fruit and experience love as something that is very pure.
But alas I live in the modern age when those things became deceased
How I long to know and love en ciel un dieu, par terre une déesse!
Date of First Draft: 23 August 1998
Annotations: The title is French for “a God in heaven, a goddess on earth,” a phrase used in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King to describe the idea of courtly love in the Middle Ages