A Love Anatomy
*** Devoted - A Love’s Anatomy ***
(For Jim)
Let me lean into your eyes,
As they — in an instant of our meeting —
First embraced me, inviting, as warm
As your arms. I reach closer to hold
Your sight and its touch, which my wishing
would have last forever.
Let me dance in your story,
Choreographing my early years along by yours.
Let me help uncover your passions
From the layers of living —
The days’ traveling over you.
Let me sing into your meaning, sweetly,
To comfort your worries; and as I harmonize
With the whistling, passing streams of wind,
My sillier self sends smiles to your spirit
Along with blessing prayers to your soul.
Let me dream into your sleeping,
To send away disturbance and disquiet…Perhaps
To lend glimpses of God’s inspired landscapes
Or to see, as we stroll sub-conscious dimensions,
Vast cityscapes, with us pausing to enjoy a cafe.
Let me draw your presence: a portrait in
Contour lines, unwilling to be defined:
A mystery, all angles, all moods — painted
In all colors at last, in a picture’s telling
of many thousands of words.
Let me walk in your forever.
Let me walk along your yearning,
Sharing hope’s helium on a rise
Into your scan of each dusk’s sky ~
To show some claim on the leaving day
like the circling sparrows do..
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(c) sally young eslinger 11/29/2022
Thanks be to God
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