TheBanyanTree: On the occasion of my wedding anniversary Oct 3

[R J Fernalld]

Elegant Obsession

Unknown to me were the ardent ecstasies of youth,
That uncommon freedom of body and spirit.
So oft enraptured are the young!
Summer legs entangled
In wooded secluded bliss...
Unhampered by love
Unclothed by desire.

No sunset's vermilion had caressed me.
I had stood not bare before God
As the universal stars shone meekly above.
Chaste youth, joys untasted, behind me
I clung to no memory of love's blush.
Devoid, I had long walked blindly
Asleep were my passions, long hidden.

Among the scattered ruins of loves and lovers unrealized,
Shadowed by ghosts, malingering,
I became autumned and wintered, dead and cold.
The locked gate, the shuttered sash
Unawakened, untried, wandering.
No trembling from an intimate heat...
No relief from another's cool touch.

Oh, but now! Thou hast come!
My Elegant Obsession!

Thou hast subdued, not stormed my gate
The wintered and autumned heart you have warmed
And silently delivered a season of spring.
Awakened...Your very breath airs my spirit!
Each lock yields willingly, your hand destroys nothing!
The path you cleared, the wanderer you  savioured.
Freedom dances now in my garden, and the stars call out your name!

You've bid me bathe in your sunset's vermilion
To stand unadorned before God unashamed.
Given to me are the tastes of splendor.
Enraptured am I...as oft are the young!
Awakened to love, undone by desire
Cling I now to this love's new memory.
You're my passion, my obsession, my love.

copyright R J Fernalld 2003
 
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 Never be bullied into silence. Never allow 
 yourself to be made a victim. Accept no 
 one's definition of your life; define yourself.

 
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