11 January 2008

Happy Anniversary

One Four You


 

The thought of losing my life

It was dragged from my heart,
The pieces and pearls of

This love I have for you.


 

You didn't have it from the moment I met you

It was not something I was willing to give

You took it, you stole it, when I was fortified

And wanting to live alone and untrammeled.


 

I had shunned and attempted to be with none

Ascetic and aloof for the trappings of poetic eons

Space and time combined to make it of never

And forever.


 

But your sweet face and cheeky lines

And eyes that burnished mine, with their silky traffic

And squinty smile were the daggers left me to

Step in time, rank and file


 

The thought of losing my life,

The funeral of my self

Was not a rough call,

It was not an ending peal of the long drug out pall.


 

It is better on the other side

A new living

The beginning of a nirvana I could only believe in

After having

The steel of your soul beating in mine.

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