Silhouette

In ghostly white and crystal blue Like sun spiked diamonds on a chain, So gently dripping down upon Your silhouette within the rain, And where you stood, the shadows bowed In homage and in wonderment, As unseen beauty shone abroad In such a sacred sacrament. Then the gas light glowed upon you And your silhouette was gone, Like curtains opened to the dawn Just as the evening's done, You reached out purple brocade arms To hold me close again, And we clasped ourselves together In the shining morning rain. And mist clad lips I softly kissed So indistinct below the lace That framed with such expressiveness The perfect smile upon your face, Which reached out so uncertainly Although I glimpsed with soft surprise The tethered velvet fluttering Of shadows living in your eyes. Then we awakened to each other As we held on to the dawn With a sense of life beginning Such a sense of being born, And we paddled in the shadows As the sun washed them away Then we walked along together Through our first together day…