Thank You

A longish one. The Valentine's Day streak continues.🤔

You make me want to make belief
To write
To love
I feel relief.

You make me wish
And wish to weep
You make me
Understand
Just what I need.

And,
I need to feel free,
Like blue skies endlessly
Migrating with the winds.
The lightness,
Of fluid loneliness
birds in gossamer flight
Beating God's gift,
Eternal wings.

And I need to feel
This vertigo
To cartwheel
Heads over heels
Dance with you in
Singing flame
To kiss your
Errant breeze.

No ecstasy
Unless we learn
To burn the pain
In comeliest of clay crucibles,
Ashes of moth wings
On candle flame
Our ardor invisible.

To bear with courage
Caterpillar years
Believing butterfly days
Ever drawing near.

Dragon Heartstrings
To guard our tale
And flashing victory
Our diamondback tail
Cauda Draconis
Signifier
That all is well.

This awkward wayward moment
But
A waiting room,
A wonderful wayside inn,
A hidden grove,
A secret garden,
A breathing space
Before everlasting
Wonders
Close in
To end this race,
In an all engulfing
Eternity ring...
Thank you
For this morning's
Beguiling wings.

I love how
You show me
This way to feel,
I love your
Magical mirroring.

At the brink
Of bottomless wells
of connecting ripples
Mimosa pits
Of mysteries.

You spell bind me,
Come blindfold me,
Eyes wide shut
Against dull mindless
Machinations,
The flow of mildewed minutes
Floating around mundane
Cesspools
Chaotic murderous
Dead seas.

Thank you for whispering
December's deceptions
The endless tease
Of summer love,
Somewhere,
Somehow,
Sometime...

Someplace else
Waxing, waning
Warming,
Waiting, silence,
In the
Silver dappled breeze.

(c) Amrita Valan 2017