This Heart Forever Dreams of You

Dancing joy, let wonder soar!

With everything so wild and new

Feelings warm and fresh outpour

All for the one with whom I flew

Frustration left me with good sense
My longing still feels too immense
And passions still wax ever tense

All for that lovely one I knew

Swinging, falling far from pain
And screaming senseless things in rain
And feeling every bit as sane

As any man whose heart you slew

Cherishing the image still
Of you so reckless, me so ill

Of yet your flicker flame of care

That, though it flitted, sparked a flare

And so I say to one this rare

A fondness still holds dear to you

The one by whom my passions grew

This heart forever dreams of you

My always loved Italian Jew

[1993]