"Not Even the Rain"
Could you accept that I would travel
gladly beyond this experience? The depth of your exquisite blue eyes imparts a
longing to gaze upon them. And in your most frail gesture are things which
enclose me, yet I dare not serve that which is too new. Your slightest look
easily will unclose me, for I have held thy fingers in the warmth of my hand.
Would you open petal by petal like the first vernal blossom? Or if your wish be
to close me, then my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of that
flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are
to perceive in this world equals the power of such intense fragility: whose
textures compel me with the colors of kingdoms, rendering demise and forever
with each breathing.
(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me
understands the voice of your eyes is more solemn than all others.)
No one has such delicate hands, not even the rain.