When I Think About You My Heart Flutters

When I think about you my heart flutters, A hush like wind through evening shutters— Soft and sudden, tender-sweet, The pulse beneath my thoughts and feet. Beauty and books, how close they lie, Like stars that lean in to kiss the sky. Wisdom and knowledge, gently sewn From seeds the same wild tree has grown. I’ve seen your gaze in candlelight, Like dawn that steals the strength of night. In quiet halls your name appears Between the lines of ancient words. Pink oysters bloom within my dreams, Drifting down soft silver streams— So strange, so bright, their ghostly hue, As if the sea were dreaming too. You are the hush in whispered pages, The calm that stills the storm of ages. Your words are dew on morning’s face, A quiet truth, a kind of grace. Though time may scatter what we knew, Each thought of you begins anew. And in my breast a sparrow sings— A flutter born on hidden wings. So when I think of you, I go Where petals fall and moonlight flows— Where beauty, books, and dreams combine To make the fleeting moment mine.