i woke up this morning from a dream
that was niether in color nor in black & white
it was a dream of an image of you
wthout form or void in the endless night
you are lightning in the daytime
the veins across my skin
you are just beyond the horizon
a most sacred sin
you are limitless

when i am with you i see the green under the black
i know the true cause of impossible laughter
when i am kissing you i taste the coming ot the rain
when i am missing you i feel a need
for the hereafter
you are a three-way mirror, a smile in the frown
describing a beautiful woman using nothing but nouns
limitless

and when you said, to hell with limits
i didn't know your words were true
i didn't know you meant to hell
with earth & sky & stars and all i ever knew
limitless

in my desperate attempts to capture
the words escape me endlessly
they dance out of light and context
to leave me gasping helplessly
you are burning a candle that is already gone
down past the wick
and yet still you burn on
limitless
you are limitless
limitless
limitless

copyright Arjuna Greist 1998