Ilya Shambat Poet Free verse

Tenderness

There is tenderness

In your heart

It is daisies and clovers on a bright summer day

Sharing emanations from their warm soft petals with heaven.

There is tenderness

In your mind

Waves that envelop and lap and froth over

Glaciers that touch the mountains and hide them from the heat.

All this tenderness

All this tenderness

That you give

Is like clouds on a summer day

Is like meadows in which flowers blossom

Is like wings of butterflies on a fressia

Is like cloud-white lilies in a country pond.

This is tenderness.

That you give to me in your eyes

That you impress on me with your fingers

That you touch to my face with your soft and bounteous lips.

In your breasts

Is eternal tenderness

That will call of itself to me

Until I can bear no longer

Until I can be no longer

Until I shout out to you

In ecstasy

For your love.

There is tenderness

In your eyes

That is skies hanging over

And holding the earth in their soft blue embrace.

In your soul

There is endless tenderness

Spilling over like a symphony

And enveloping the earth.

So much tenderness

So much tenderness

That it reaches the stars

And takes them away from their self-satisfaction

And says, look at us, heal us, enrich us, give us your love.

I don't know how much tenderness

Can a single heart carry

It must be overflowing

And shattering against the ribcage

Breaking against the self.

Your tenderness

Is a natural force

That intensifies for as long as we exist

And lives forever.

In your tenderness

In all of your tenderness

Is the essence of nature

Is the secret of all eternity

Is the incarnation of life.

And for all of your tenderness

For all of this tenderness

I will kiss the ground you walk on

I will fall on my knees before you

I will tremble before you

Like a tree shivering in the wind.

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