Slumbering still, I stay my stead,
A welcome shade of daily bread,
Of dime-store tales of common tone,
A noble blade I had to hone,
A castle with a feigning tower,
A broken rhythm yet I kept on,
And never saw the colored dawn,
Life was just a sullen clock,
I walked a walk, but faked the talk,
And kept a pace that was not new,
...at least, until I met my you.
Slowly, and then, all at once,
I felt that I had been a dunce,
To never quote the painted skies,
Or count the hues within your sighs,
The ways and wants of what could be,
A future with you here with me,
A star-crossed lover of all that beats,
A rhythm sweet, the song completes,
So, now with all the hues there was,
And is and are and ever does,
I settle naked, a pallete true,
And build a better shade with you.