A Love Anatomy

*** Devoted - A Love’s Anatomy *** (For Jim) Let me lean into your eyes, As they — in an instant of our meeting — First embraced me, inviting, as warm As your arms. I reach closer to hold Your sight and its touch, which my wishing would have last forever. Let me dance in your story, Choreographing my early years along by yours. Let me help uncover your passions From the layers of living — The days’ traveling over you. Let me sing into your meaning, sweetly, To comfort your worries; and as I harmonize With the whistling, passing streams of wind, My sillier self sends smiles to your spirit Along with blessing prayers to your soul. Let me dream into your sleeping, To send away disturbance and disquiet…Perhaps To lend glimpses of God’s inspired landscapes Or to see, as we stroll sub-conscious dimensions, Vast cityscapes, with us pausing to enjoy a cafe. Let me draw your presence: a portrait in Contour lines, unwilling to be defined: A mystery, all angles, all moods — painted In all colors at last, in a picture’s telling of many thousands of words. Let me walk in your forever. Let me walk along your yearning, Sharing hope’s helium on a rise Into your scan of each dusk’s sky ~ To show some claim on the leaving day like the circling sparrows do.. —————————————————————————————————————- (c) sally young eslinger 11/29/2022 Thanks be to God