Love Poem: Sunrise
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Written by: Vernon Witmer

Sunrise

Apparent air in tug-of-war 

                                        With passing butterfly wings.

                          It is the music of the story 

                                                Each heart daily sings.

           You awoke in love today 

                                                          So deep that you may drown.

              Welcome trident’s touch as much 

                                            As this new whispered sound.

        For no time now exists of which you fear. 

                                                        Burden’s past belong to burden’s past.

            Fleeing soon, such visions disappear 

                    As freedom greets your every turn at last.

                             You speak not yesterday nor entertain the morrow 

      Nor speak of anything within the range of sorrow.

               You know them not, in countenance nor form. 

                                     No longer do they manifest as storm.

Your gift is now the petaled flower’s power to persuade 

Your lover’s lips to cast to yours an everlasting shade.
 
              Your love be as engagement of the water to the sand, 

                  Earth to space, time to place, 

Fingers to God’s Hand.