Sounds of sacred delight
rising from bellies
of children at play.
Warmth of penetrating comfort
seeping from the sun’s
precious rays.
Visions of light
sparkling from diamonds and gold
wrapped in a circle
never-ending.
Step-in-step
old, young
couples
friends
family
strolling side-by-side
companions of life.
Tender caresses
surround me,
embracing the gentle murmur.
Deeper and deeper
exquisite in beauty
exquisite in sorrow.
Life temporal
in the present
as fleeting as the breeze.
Love eternal
deep and wide
a never-ending aquifer,
the challenge of excavation
rewarded with depths
springing forth in ways
unprecedented,
previously unfathomable.
Coaxed into existence
with patient
and relentless pursuit
of the ache.
Emotion by emotion,
Cupid’s arrow points the path
beckoning us to
leave behind
parcels unneeded
and gather that
which cannot be grasped
with hands
but only carried
in our hearts.
