Something About True Love

There was a time when I saw all possibilities in you

If you’d let me touch you, stroke you, love you like I do

But I was too close to your soul and your body refused

I became a distant star and faded into the violet hills

I caught you a sonnet and let you drink from my still

And everything I wanted, watched wither into blue

There was a time when every passion flared & shone

When walking together, grazing on the shores of Avalon

Was enough to fill the intervals of sweet Reason’s tune

I saw that Life itself was what we loved, and saw in each,

I couldn’t love you more than where that love was from

You wore evening on your lips; the dawn I kissed to reach

In those times, which now are fables, lovely like sleep,

I lived to sing your praises and sow what love had reaped

We had gathered in the magic of heaven’s falling leaf

Long enough to know that life could breathe anew

In the offering up of distance to Love’s eternal thief,

Nothing was so sacred; “God is loving me loving you.”

Now you knock, I may not answer, for my heart feels old

I want to kiss you now, though my lips are wolfbane cold

There was an art of looking, pouring wine into the brook

We saw one another, love hath never flowed so bold

What happened? Immortal love kept what seasons took

The mortal spring hath laboured, thirsting for that look