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** Devotion Poem, VANTAGE POINTS **
(For Jim. #17 in Devotion Poem Series)

“I’m not a romantic,”
   you announced at the very beginning
With a side-flick of your hand
As if you might then stand
To exit…taking along your trail
Of cool colors — the blues and greens —
Too unwilling for any startling
By my sun yellows, tangerine  oranges 
Or my bleeding reds,
To disturb your eyes.
But committed to staying, you added,
“I’ve never been able to wink either,”
  demonstrating that disability as if
To say, “At you, I would if I could.”

Hypotheses and proofs, have 
  always linked
In your engineer’s character,
While crayons and ongoing arrows
   spread out through mine,
Which, like our colors, 
I thought were complimentary,
But now it appears you 
   might have thought 
   were just me being childish
And not about any inspired creativity, 
   from the other side of the brain, so
Alien to the light-green violets
On your side of the color wheel:
Where the palette of intelligence 
   has formulae —
Not unpredictable outbursts
Or random integers of emotion.

Once, you held me like the first
Glimpsing of a winking Venus 
   in the dusk
Presenting to all
Her prelude of heaven’s lights
To continue on through the night…

But now, paddling deep in
   an ocean of years,
I fear that you find me
Like a flicking bedside candle
Meddling in your wish to sleep…

While some galaxies 
   in my cosmos
Have darkened
With my own self-depreciation
   and decline
So like
Those stars 
   and dreams that have gone aging.
But inside,
My sun’s risings and settings
Still glow blessed 
With vibrant, surging color…
Wishing to be held by 
   your morning’s horizon-blue eyes.


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(c) sally young eslinger 3/22
Thanks be to God
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