An Invitation

Come into the garden of my love, For now, it is high Spring there. My sweet, my darling, my beloved, Let us indulge in our earthly paradise, For it's you I love with all my heart, It's you I cherish above all things. Your beauty dazzles my lonely heart, You are my white unblemished dove That sits upon a sunlit bough. Let me hear your sweet sighs That outshines the thrush's song. You are my one desire, the apex that like A mountain top that shines and dazzles With freshly fallen white snow. You have the power to transform My dreary house from a poor parlor Into an infinite space, a depth of blue That reaches the ends of the galaxy. All walls of my limited space evaporate Trees spring up, blossom heavy and fragrant, Dew drenched and cleaned with Spring's light rains. So do not delay, sweet dove, to bestow Your nectarine kisses on my parched lips That I might, my love appeased, live on.