Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Stars Weep With Longing

Even the stars
wept
with longing 
for the Lady.


Her every move
strings and bells
and 
Sirens song.



The poet had
freed 



her from a 
stifling  affair
with a 
pirate who had
stolen her 
away from
a Kingdom 
she was 
ordained to 
serve.


She had 
fallen in love,
when he
accomplished
this feat 
with niether
pistol or sword
but only
the power 
of his 
clever words.


And  
he with her
centuries before,
some say 
the beginning 
of time,
at the birth
of the stars.


In the brilliance
of daylight
he would gaze
at her, 
the tilt of her 
head, the bend
of her wrist,
he would
relish in
the peal of her
laughter.


And he would 
write verses
never ending
proclaiming 
the feelings
he'd always 
known.


In the comfort
of night he 
would trace 
her naked 
shoulders with
fingertips
and tell her
stories of 
the lives 
he had lived,


and he would kiss
gently her
nape, and she
would settle
into the arms
that had
held her,


since the moon 
was young.

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