Jew #14

Like cheap market cloth in dirt-stained cheap hands Love's been abused, narrowly defined, broken Like a cistern into selfish small strands Until its only a silly token Of our greed. But I see God image still In you, a high and vaulted beauty bright Like Judean star top a quiet hill And I drink the inner peace of your light And let your wisdom teach my anxious soul To trust, and patience in they realm of joy Improves my faith, frees me of dross alloy And stand me before the ancient promise gold Jew, you are ever love to me, my eyes Await you like tides wait the moon to rise. ii O that God dilate the heart of men like dreams That bring them face to face with fantasies They mistake for love. O that sense redeems Them from their faults and inaccuracies By which they compare my truth to their claims And cheapen my passion with fleshly needs For my love all worth of cold earth exceeds And she who claims it above mortal flames Another sun that galaxies do chase Without satisfaction of her embrace For we created once, redeemed again Incubate forever his image new Become the purpose for sunshine and rain Sacred vessels among the chosen few iii So gift from God I exalt you above The sun, the moon, the stars as my true love We sensible beyond skin and flesh proclaim A richer treasure in our clay carved frame The place from which all joy exults, the core Of songs eternity. I love you more Than palace troves of wealth, more than sweet time Seducing still my heart, and your smiles chime The hours of my happiness, the tower Of my care. And yet, you but a flower, Sweeter than a silly girl's tear, you are The jewel of my heart's garden, my dear Rare in earth's botany, fresher by far For youth in you cannot the seasons sear. iv Love is the blending of our two hearts, when You are rose then I am soil, feeding you The substance of my heart. If a song, then I am every sweet note that rapture you And if only human, then, Adam again I yield myself, and rib, and all I am Even against your wrong I be your lamb For to be so our life is long ordain ... Kiss me then like wild comet's fire, I will Supply your breath like atmosphere. Hold me Close in the tide of your desire, and still We will move to life sweetest symphony For we are blended, love, like salt and sea And find in each love's true identity