Stolen Sunlight From Moon's Surface
Stolen Sunlight From Moon's Surface
Stolen sunlight
ripped from the Moon’s surface
the blinding light of your soul sheers clean my reflective powers
you tore away the mirrors
I am left naked before your gaze
the clock down the hall that ticked so loudly for so many years stopped
instantly
on that day…
the day you opened your smile to my
eyelids…kissing them
shocked and appalled by your advance
(the leather chaps you once wore
you wear no more
and the chain saws stopped their incessant roar)
the leaves fell from the trees
snow blanketed my pain with white barren
questing waves of peace
I stole a sideways glance at your nose
The cut
so sharp of your chin
The absolute perfection of God’s creation
Your ear!
Your hands bent by pain
Looked like bird’s nests for me to rest in
And I was the shadow rainbow ‘of a thousand natives sprung
Sprawled wide and true across every single horizon
Born to the shore to eat !...In plenty the copious gifts of the sea
The fish swam to me and asked to be my feed
the grass sprung up beneath my feet
the clover begged me to rest a while in the daisy fertile fields
I was the crocus of spring !
The beckoning of a mother’s call for dinner!
I was the park where children play
The picnic spread wild and wondrous…and Strawberry rich
I was baked goods and coffee
I was laughter and drenching …drenching truest tears
All in the moment
the very moment
in which you ripped the sunlight off the moon’s surface and gave it to me
with your first quenching
wrenching smile
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