O Love!: A poem 

I walk on the beach in diagonal angles 

with the sands lightly coating my ankles 

And the picturesque sea’s languid grace 

is like a timeless veil over my face 

My eyes are covered with the colour of your lace 

Before I imagine your unexpressed love in my glands 

I feel all my prayers crawl over my flesh like ants 

Thanking the trees, the breeze, and if you please 

that a word from you is magic’s lease 

A wizard’s brilliant hypnotic trick 

An age-old wise and happy limerick 

An undiminishing candle despite a burning wick 

I know jagged shells can cut bare feet 

But their beauty is a real myriad treat 

I hear your whispers in the waves 

And their echoes in my soul’s caves 

I feel enlightenment in such darkness 

A high-flying gull in hunger’s starkness 

There is a message in this expectant wilderness 

And I take, by the horns, the hallways of emptiness 

I cast, like a net, my life-long grief 

And breathe the happiness in you, in the belief 

that it is not my mere grand fantastic illusion 

that we started out together with the burst of creation