HER LIGHT

In the simplest words

I could hope to express

I have all of this love

To get off my chest

I don't need to be wordy

I'll do my damn best

Not to say demure,

Aphrodite,

Or to quote Herman Hesse

I won't linger on Kipling

Leave Thoreau to his best

Kant can't deny me

There's forever - in this

Kraus was in error

Bukowski - a man!

For in me - just for her

I'd do all that I can

To make her happy and smile

Any way that she might

Wipe her tears

Cure her longings

Be her knave

And her knight

I already moved mountains

Just to be by her side

Felt the pain and the sufferin'

Of a past I can't Hide

Not a man, not a robber

Who could hope to divide

From this requisite love

Of these two hearts combined

Now I covet each portion

Every moment of time

That we spend together

Two lives intertwined

She's my gift

She's my blessing

My reward

And my shrine

I bow at her temple

Towards her will

I'm inclined

To a whole host of angels

I owe my whole life

Overwhelmed by her love

By her grace

And her kind

She's the first one

To love me

Every trait

Every line

So I hold her above me

Betrothed to her light