Were There Hope

I was never in a league of noble gentlemen
To whom she'd cast polite and flitting smiles, 
Only distant hope and dying dreams for me! 
Or perhaps descent into a game of wiles

To give a chance of sipping wine on heady nights
With her angelic presence to declare; 
Above, an aura playing out hypnotic hues, 
And I in awe of blonde cascades of hair.

But no! my tiring soul is sinking in a mire
To haunt me for an age and evermore, for
How could I expect to hold her silken hand
When I am but a soulless ghost of yore?