Time Will Tell

Your face as fair as summer, smooth, serene;
Your eyes as broad and bright as the sky
Stare, flash forward, and flare blue and green
As you watch me surrender to slumber and fade:
I sleep with thoughts of you and me
Somewhere here, somewhere far away
A slender finger of stone points steady toward
Heaven with a chance, a chalice, a chimney,
A dance-- a dream of us and distance,
By time's river we step then wade...
The sight of someone seeing me
makes me suddenly shiver
yellow blinking light by the water
could be from September fireflies
but making me slightly shake.
I see it could be from wolves' eyes.
Our love is a river found by a lake
Still with a screaming silence
A riot of calm
Movement below a smooth surface:
Sharp and blue and quick
Your kiss lingers on my lips
Trembling with the timbre of music
from sailors and from singers
Bound with ropes from distant ships
Hold my heart in your palm and fingers
Bend me twist me into something new
Rose petals sail on the wind with blood-red wings--
I am powerless to resist you...
And I who set pain against it to bar the door
Fell under the sway of a gentle rain
Solid cedar swings in and pain scars the floor.
Your eyes glow green and bold in low light
Promising kisses, bite-marks and more...
I yield to an avalanche of love, a gentle attack
This battle rages without blows, a welcome war;
I let go of the pain I held (that held me back).
Light from candles bends shadows sending them
Pooling like ink along the floors of the cabin.
Through dawn or darkness we find our way
During the nights and days that find us
Making love again and again.

3.6.2006