Ilya Shambat Poet Iambic Pentameter

Orchid

Soft and warm is your heart, gentle orchid,

Sweet and tender are petals you bear

Bumblebees crowd your pistil. They lurk. It

Sends golden dust everywhere.


Would I knew where your tenderness comes from

Would I knew how your softness is made

Would I knew how your love makes the soul roam

To the heights and the depths, unafraid.


Would I felt your incredible beauty

On my cheeks, on my lips, in my heart,

Would I had one desire undisputed

Within my soul: to impart


Every beautiful thing that you know

To the people who need it the most,

By transmitting your tender glow

To their hearts and their minds. Though it cost


Me a lifetime, to give your true glory

To the world, to the stars, to the sky -

And though I never know your full story

I will never allow you to die -


No, I'll take you through time, you just glow,

I will take you to Venus and Mars

And when you are about to go

I'll establish you among the stars.

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