I always have you in my eyes: A poem 

My love for you  

is no neighbour’s orchard, 

no forbidden fruit 

cordoned off by walls, 

We could be barricaded by destiny 

But it doesn’t stop our eternity 

The drawbridge may seem folded 

and there may be no boat across the moat 

I could have wished for wings 

to take me to your tower 

But I am a knight 

who knows how to wait out the night 

I can make a dessert out of a desert 

count the lemons and limes of time 

like a wizard who is so sublime 

that he speaks the mendicant’s lines 

I can age, and be forever young 

speak with God’s immaculate tongue 

And I can always have paradise  

in my eyes