A Moment In Your Soul

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A Moment In Your Soul

Stirred lazy into this cup of light

smoking will of the wisps

through a sleeping lions heart

I am unmade in my bed

and drift beyond any anchorage of time.

This time busting passing through

this love making of invisible hands

that un-pleats my twist of mortality

in the shimmer of your hem

in the harem of your fragrance;

It takes and gives of itself

as the thread of our desire to uncurl

into an infinite instant.

As a moment in your soul.

I am your iris in the suns eye.

The throb in your heart-felt longing

Just this light touch pulsing as your stillness,

and drawn into the wonder

of your vision of us.

My child self nursed

deep as a foundling in your well of peace.

This cup shatters into dancing starfish

and my lagoon is a red planet

that has been swallowed by a sea

so green that it seeds the universe

with sea-fronds of love.

Nothing moves but your own wave

racing away into silence.

When I return to this orphaned world,

I will begin to speak these words

as if I owned them.

But I will just be tracing

your beautiful face in the dust

for you to see how you look

in the shadow of me.

love

eric

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