Light
Sunlight I send to you
golden, transluscent
- easier way to Eden
where we fuse edges of bliss
and lose ourselves
in one beam
so alive...
collapsing together now...
as it all unfolds,
this heavenly spring
in cruel physical winter,
widening promise and choice
as fantasy curls illusion
openings dark, uncertain
feeling flooding high and deep...
and yearning, it reaches to sacred
over frames of desire
and delinquent pretense
at something less than mortal,
gather up, gather up...
this body, old hands and feet
this heart frayed and flapping
everywhere in winds
from other spaces,
these lips, braying farm-yard
and soul, obscure and withering
caught up in cruel tasks,
gathering more or less from
that any-grass-is-greener garden
and hearing voices...
your voice calling...
is it your delusion or mine?
and this light
will take me once more,
leaving heavy flesh
of betrayal and human chore
to earth.
warm on head and heart,
will I find yearning released there?
or will greater love be born?
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