Rendezvous with Emily Bronte (10)

Rendezvous with Emily Bronte 

1

Miss Emily Bronte time travel first brought you to me

Before you were famous but after I knew you would be

With the benefit of history preparing me for this surprise

Compromising time’s right to provide the key to Paradise

While love-making for us was naturally our preoccupation

Some distance away from the capital of my home nation

That eventually I abandoned once Thatcher had started

To ruin all the things I most loved before she departed

Chorus

For once in my life I was where I had longed to be

Breathing the same rarefied air as Miss Emily Bronte

With her eyes echoing the renaissance of the spring sky

As the snow on the mountains departs now summer is nigh

2

Logic was absent rejected by us out of hand

For delaying our journey through an idyllic land

With rainbows aplenty and forests a haven of life

Without competition to generate mischief and strife

The harvest was ready yet winter a long voyage away

Removed from the fall that precipitated worldly decay

Delivered at last from the storm that fosters true fear

When it demands that beauty and youth disappear 

Chorus

For once in my life I was where I had longed to be

Breathing the same rarefied air as Miss Emily Bronte

With her eyes echoing the renaissance of the spring sky

As the snow on the mountains departs now summer is nigh

3

We met many times with no reason to rush our affair

With amazing beauty not to mention incredibly rare

Yet in defiance of logic she opened a page on me

Seeing a diamond where glass must actually be

Wishful thinking yet I would not argue with this

Now in this new land I had Emily Bronte to kiss

With stockings fantastic sewn from satin by hand

And culture exquisite unlike ours shallow and bland

Chorus

For once in my life I was where I had longed to be

Breathing the same rarefied air as Miss Emily Bronte

With her eyes echoing the renaissance of the spring sky

As the snow on the mountains departs now summer is nigh

The End

© K.F. Geach