Ciphered Poetry

Days, A	I B	Hold C	Afar D	Tonight E
Strays, A	Watched F	Cold C	From G	Sight E
Stealing H	Life, I	Embalming J	Room— K	Ever L
Reeling— H	Seemed M	Calming— J	Simple, N	Clever, L
Binding O	Her P	Remnants Q	So R	Weak S
Finding O	Lit T	Commandments Q	Upon U	Doublespeak S
Starred V	Eyes W	Guide X	Her Y	Cause Z
Guarded V	With AA	Pride X	Then AB	Pause Z
And AC	She AD	Said AE	Each AF	Sign AG
Firsthand, AC	As AH	Unfed AE	Loneliness AI	Aligned AG
CODED MESSAGE
B I AH As	F Watched AD She	P Her T Lit	G From AF Each	D Afar K Room
I Life AA With	M Seemed W Eyes	R So U Upon	N Simple Y Her	AB Then, AI Loneliness

Days, I hold afar tonight

strays, watched cold from sight

Stealing life, embalming room—ever

reeling—seemed calming—simple, clever,

Binding her remnants so weak,

finding lit commandments upon doublespeak,

Starred eyes guide her cause,

guarded with pride then pause,

And she said each sign

firsthand, as unfed loneliness aligned

Deciphered verse:

I watched her from afar

as she lit each room

Life seemed so simple then,

with eyes upon her loneliness

Ok, so I thought I did something a bit different a few weeks back, but lost my notes as to what the directions were, confused myself a bit, so held off on posting.  Found them today, so decided to post it.

The poem utilizes a mathematical, cipher type approach for building a poem.  In the large grid, you'll notice each box has a rhyme scheme listed, which indicates where rhymes occur and so forth.

Their are two poems created here, but, to be fair, you kind of have to keep the hidden poem in mind while creating the original one.  

The original poem will be entered into the spaces in the grid, making sure the rhyme schemes fit.  Then, the columns that do not rhyme are extracted, and thus, become a poem of their own.

Hopefully this explanation, and the poem itself, in grid and then broken down to how both original and hidden poem look taken out of the grid are adequate enough to understanding how this puzzle type of poem works.