Drifting no more...

Know I have drifted
as lonely
through clouds
where dark foreboding glimpses
haunt
of love's fair promise
strangled
by defiant spineless  pride

my tears
for love's
apparent imminent demise
well up,
inside...
but, searching deeper
love bids me
in you
again
depart this baited earthy tomb,
but see now
none so tainted
more than I!

 I flew so high
and met the moon
and silver daggers in the heart
she thrust

...descent
down
to earth's darkling  dungeon
sadly cast
this poison boding gloom
bones broken
shaken,
petrified
my life subsiding
from the ache inside

...yet I have looked again through pain
into your eyes
and saw  there this
the quest
we dare
to dream

we are of  the sun,
we are of the stars...

what have we done ?

whence came these scars ?

and yet you
 look upon this curse
and see a beauty
you would
nurse

...within this
mortal shell encased,
you do not see
what I became,
you see
only
the
inner
man

... and time will speak
 our destiny
for seeing that
from which we flee,
seeking
it all
we cannot see,

...lovers we shall always be,
our hearts entwined forever, freed...

so float above the raging sea with me
in dreams beyond eternity,
our running
from the world
disarms
the tyrant of our mind's alarms
and held
now close
within my arms
your gentle spirit's
peaceful
silence
charms

... so now ,  
eye into eye,  
our gaze transfixed in torrents,
speaking
life's dull tricks
behind us now,
we coast
the air
 as each to other
souls we bare
and share long longings,
past remorse
for now
we choose a fairer course...

so soar
on broken wings
above

...reborn
by power
mightiest
of  dove...

sweet gentle soul I thee embrace
but
we must face
the darkest race...

the world pursues our lover's dance
and would destroy us
from our trance...

deft lies
of envy,
cursed deceit,
we must leave all
behind  
beneath our feet...

for only purest love
suffices
when darkness
follows and entices
...so
can we bear
to stand disdain
and witness to a world in pain

and cry
within
each other's tears
for all that's past down many years,
bleeding,
yet in each other's wounds
find healing words
we
never
found  ?

...we'll live by love then,
nothing more,
we read
the book,
we know the score,
conjoined by
power few do realise
unspoken
given
deep,
to each,
within our eyes,
life for us arises
from our sighs.
...  and wistfully
scorched flesh
defies
the chains
which self itself enshrines in lies,
whole said,
can
mist-hid sun
shed blue sunrise
with half-withholden moon,
in darkening skies ?

...we want no thing more
for ourselves
but each
unto the other gives
the manna of unstinting lover
each has found
within the other
... take then
my hand
and
I will lead
through this illusion
where hearts bleed...

release the mind,
release  the  heart,
for none was really far apart
we are as one
and it was spoken,
finding
the last
spell
is
broken...