In Me

It says I must not covet
Another person's wife,
But I expressly covet
Another person's life.

Her warmth and luminescence,
Her beauty and her grace,
Her lively effervescence
That shimmers through her face

Its heavenly resplendor
And like a sunset sky
Refracts in pearl and amber
The how, the where, the why.

I covet all about her -
Yes, even her loss and pain,
Even her rage and heartbreak,
And in me shall remain

Her spirit, bright and restless,
And her delightful mind
Making me hear through deafness
And see by going blind.

She'll give me her white splendor
And her unending joy,
Burn me until mere embers
And all the lies destroy,

Sending her love and sweetness
And tenderness and peace
Her passion and completeness
And her delightful bliss.

I want her whole being
To live within my chest
To me the truth revealing
And never, ever rest -

I want to have within me
All that she is and was,
To torture and to spin me,
And on the rocks to toss

All that is not impassioned
All that is not of light
And in its repercussions
Set everything to right -

I want all that she knows
To live within my soul,
Like, in a vase, a rose
Whose leaves will never fall

But each day will inspire
Gratitude and delight
And make the mind soar higher
To meet the timeless light -

To meet, in its quintessence,
The universe in all
And in her luminescence
To stumble and to fall.

It says I must not covet
Another person's wife
But God himself will know it
I want another's life

To be with me forever
And share with me her soul
From now until the never -
Until the sun will fall -

To take me into starlight
And throw me on the ground
To share, from dawn till twilight,
The splendor that I found.

It says when one I treasure
Is with me no more,
She will remain forever
If I keep loving her

And as I live inside her
And she inside of me
Our souls will become brighter
And set the fancy free

To roam like holy fire
Across the starlit sky
And soar forever higher
And never, ever die

But burn with inspiration
And passion for all time
And bring reification
Of everything sublime

And bring, never-forsaken,
That which has come to pass:
The beauty that awakened
The universe in us,

Sharing the light and bringing
Good fallen in misuse
That through unbridled feeling
Attains the higher truth,

The truth of cosmic process
That burns in all that lives
And never dies or pauses,
But brings all to their knees.

I値l follow you to heaven
And walk for you in death,
With you I値l run and travel
Along the narrow path,

I値l bathe in your delight and
Send you all light and warm,
Your days and nights I値l brighten
And shield you from the storm,

And if I cannot covet
What is not meant to be
I値l reap what you have sowed:
All of your life, in me.