Love Poem: When You Are Free

When You Are Free

When you are Free


Do you know yourself

Can you see inside the painted walls
Quick constructed plasterboards
The disguises you find
In a puppetry of events 
Later on
When you are being 
Without thought

And it will be in that easy company
When an unshackled second 
Slips through you
With margarita salt
Your laughter will sound like yours
And catching you ginning

Find you then looking in; into yourself

This heart that I have seen

Did you know back then
With all the slight of hand
How you ever evaded the question in your eyes
What manner of you was so despised
When it accepted this bouquet of lies
Handed to you with all its petty flowery

Did you know yourself then 

Do you know yourself now

Now that the fettered yoke has been lifted
Now that the twinkle of yourself
Has surpassed 
You forget yourself
And in lilac ribbons of maidens vestal
Presumed more than the innocence 
You where

You knew yourself then 

In that calligraphy of wine and sangria
Unguarded
When you wrapped the fullness of your rapture
And twirled on daisy heads
Old time clocks blown by the breath
Of your freedom

 Will I know you then

Will I have the courage

Should I then embrace this wild dominion