Hidden Amaranth
—Ours, Beyond Sight—
If this be sin, then let me dwell therein,
a little longer, folded in thy breath;
Let no world's eye adjudge where we begin,
nor drag our hidden sacrament to death.
Come, wrap me as the wind enfolds the rose,
whose fragrance deepens where no witness breathes;
Till our two shadows mingle, and none knows
which of us first surrendered what sight sees.
Yet when the world commands that love be seen,
I shall not yield our silence to its sight;
For what we are exceeds what we have been
made visible beneath another's light.
Let others prove their loves by what they show;
We are the truth no witness can bestow.
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