I try to sleep
As your sun rises
On an unexpected horizon.

You are a wondrous impossibility -
Floating silk on
Gravity's defiant breeze.

You are ten thousand
Diamond facets
Dancing in a pool of ink
That spill to pen -
A most luminous manifesto.

You are an alphabet
Every expression enriched
By the affection of your smile.

Your laughter crescendos,
A roaring river
To crystalline oceans -
A private serenade
In a life gone void of song.

You are nine million
Points of light
On the back of eyelids
Closed on account of floods.

I spy a sacred tomorrow
Lit by countless candles
Of your unexpected joy.

11/12/2012

Posted on 11/13/2012
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