Timeless Love

I fear to tell you Why I go to the dark cave every evening. If you must know It’s because she whose heart mine is knitted with is a dragon. A wild beast. She devours my fears. She invades my mind and dispels My doubts. She dethrones my loneliness. And pulls down the walls of hate. She sinks the ships of depression. I surrendered when she broke down my gates. She has taken the empire of my soul. Have you ever found her kind In your nature books? She raids the cities Of my painful past And brings to me its spoils. She is not beautiful? Your eyes will never tell you she is. Her beauty is not given to sight to behold. She exhales fire; I burn. She beats my pen into a sword; I conquer. She is not among the daughters That go down the stream at eve With earthen pots to draw water. She is wingless Without the poetry My heartbeats recites. My whispers are the wind She glides in. I sail on her tears To realms the eagles have not seen. My ink is the only wine that intoxicates her. When she lies drunk in my arms that's when I sneak away And you find me here. Do not frown at this slave I have become. O do not! For I am gladly enchanted. There is no return. Seek me not. You will never find me. tracing my footprints on the sands. Footprints can only be found on the sands of time. The realm in her arms is timeless.