My Life Awakened in Her Eyes
My life awakened in her eyes
and love shall never die while I can see
the radiance that visits me
in her eternal sky
and makes an age of her cheek
which in memory touches me
and never leaves this place where I have kept
unending happiness
within the space between two illimitable worlds
and the bond that holds them locked
in an infinite sublime bed of stars
where love ever bears
the seed and circumference
of eternal light.
How came my heart to be perfected?
My mind to understand?
My way brought to regions unsuspected?
Who led me by the hand?
Who gave me visions of this holy love?
showed me, golden and serene,
a light cascading from above?
The sweet relief of having her to talk to
long ago greatly improved into
the sweet relief of having her always to listen to
that I might wake up and find
the precious beauty of her mind.
Christopher M. Swan, "Song of Susan," 2008
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