LOVESONG

by

Martin Higgins

First I saw your sky-blue eyes, clear, open wide and clear in infinite acceptance...

While in the crown of a redwood, a falcon beaked its downy hatchling into the endless empty ocean between heaven and earth.

Your mouth held a smile that belied a sure life of order and control...

And I, a sojourning fisherman drifting out across unforgiving waters, current-caught, far beyond the fog spangled lights of his life's small village.

You kissed my unworthy lips...

While Cassiopeia shifted her ageless, starry gown and, for a moment, the universe was mine.

Through the quiet museum halls we walked, enraptured and young once more, two new hearts beating strong with longing and hope, just hope...

But seven thousand years of studied art and life did not show match for my mounting joy.

Then you held me in your warm bed, loved I felt needed...

Somewhere a mountain was moving.

And we let the insistent, demanding desert warm our bones...

Cedar and sage smoke our incense, in our hair and on our bodies; living altars of devotion.  Can this be love? Can the earth bloom around our shoeless feet?  Can we grow into what is only what can be?

I want forever to be with you.