Poem "You Left Me" by: Emily Dickinson

Elderberry and lavender

yet in full bloom when we first met

In your eyes such a blossom

oh this beauty I'll never forget

Sepia-coloured memories nailed

like butterflies in a neatly row

And yet preserved for the sweet day

When I hear the m crying

Help me! Free me!

You left me, sweet, two legacies

A legacy of love

A heavenly father would content

Had he the offer off

You left me boundaries of pain

Capacious as the sea

Between eternity and time

Your consciousness and me

On and on, love and sorrow

like a laurel crown on your head

Have you seen that little photograph

on the wall that detains the sunset.

Sepia-coloured memories nailed

like butterflies in a neatly row

And yet preserved for the sweet day

When I hear the m crying

Help me! Free me!

You left me two legacies

A heavenly father would content, had he the offer of

(A legacy)

You left me- boundaries of pain

(A legacy of love, he would content, had he the offer of)

Capacious as the sea

(Between eternity, eternity and time, your consciousness and me)

Your consciousness and me, and me

Sepia-coloured memories nailed

like butterflies in a neatly row

And yet preserved for the sweet day

When I hear the m crying

Help me! Free me!