I saw you passing by and
grasping I said please…. don’t go,
Your beauty, your sweet presence
is something I would know.
And smiling gently did you say,
I live but in your mind.
To hold me here will wither me
so I’ll be on my way.
That I might blossom more each day,
my fullness to impress,
in radiant colors, shapes and forms
upon your heart in ways I can’t express.
Reluctantly I eased the grip
I’d held so long incessant,
amazed to find that in my mind I saw a world consistent
with all the words I’d never heard
or ever once imagined,
and followed in their passing,
even more and more unending fashions,
that did so delight with their sight
Until no more
could I endure
the thought of holding on,
so setting free the love in me,
allowed the joy to flow….
forever more…..in effortless expansion.