As She Was

06 November 2025

https://poems.culturing.net/2025/11/as-she-was/

Why did her being there cause such confusion?
Why her, after all, not another? I saw
through the mist the mirage of the Lady made flesh,
and I fell in defeat before hope against hope.
But why could I not see her? Right there, in the room,
as she was?