Dance of Light and Shadow

@ Uootem

A moment once shared forever speaks to me
not only with words... but with isochronal flashes of color,
not only with color... but with rhythmical phrases of words,
my pen gyrates like an exotic dancer intoxicated with desire
as I hold it between a kaleidoscope of light and shadow...
for my memories of you are this... love's light and losing's shadow.

I remember your sensuous movements in light, a pirouette,
when words once shared seemed to balance,
then spin in delicate colors, pastels of a springtime day
and ignite to burning fire, red as any rose of summer
and color my world, as autumn leaves before they fall
and my thoughts are as pure as winter's gentle blanket.

Now such darkness clouds my vision, in the mist of time forgotten,
and sometimes I write embracing the sharp edge of the shadows,
letting them cut deep, for they haunt me still... memories piercing
and from the pain, from the blood of my pen, from the wound of my heart
darkness fades... and I arise from the mist to a new sun of hope
for I realize I have loved you forever, and that is how it should be.

Motionless, I lie in shade, in a lacework of emotions that overcomes me,
where rhythm dictates heartbeats... quickening at the thought of you.
and visions compress in strangely vain utterances... a poem flows from my pen
I know I must write down every word, my heart speaks what must be heard
I feel the colors and hear the phrases, the shadows and space between,
I dare whisper to you of love, of the music of touch and the ballet of hope in rainbows.

Silent embrace, softened voice of the poetry written, a kiss of ink
I write the words in gentle stanzas over you... in shadowed verses
perhaps that is how life goes, from light to shadows to light again,
as I spend another moment dreaming of your shadow upon me
and catch a glimpse of the light of your eyes that spoke love to mine.
as a moment once shared forever speaks to me... in a dance of light and shadow.