Ode

Summer skies are your eyes

Crater lakes are your eyes

Mixing a thousand essences

 And perfectly clear.

You nourish with depth

You heal with richness

You strenghten with empathy

You dissolve all of life

And you are perfectly clear.


Each moment with you is an orchid in bloom

A flutter of butterfly wings

Each moment with you is a lapping ocean

Running through hearts and dissolving

All that the mind brings in.


A fish in the brook will swim

All his life upstream

To find you.

A stork in the sky will fly

All autumn

To be near your warmth.

Light from a star will run

For years across the void

To caress you.

I will love you

Until the end of time.


What if my passion were incoherent

What if I dealt only gestures and motions

What if I knew no words

To tell you my love?

I would invent a new language

I would found a new country

I would start a new religion

To tell you my love.


Time disappears into a black hole

When I am around you.

Earth vanishes from beneath me

When I am around you.

Disaster can't touch me

When I am around you.

Around you, the only thing real

Is you.


Your hair is a million meteors

Raining sky fire 

And lighting the earth

Your lips are streams of lava

Burning through the land

Your neck is an avalanche

Running down the mountain

Your breasts are the bosoms of Planet Earth

You are peace and war 

You are time and eternity

And your eyes are crater lakes

Where I'd like to take a swim.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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