BESIEGED BY TENDERNESS

by Nancy

Nameless river
Tide of somber thoughts
Drift a new course

I lay these gifts upon your weeping shore
Light
Happiness
Miracle

I have a love

More brilliant than the sunshine I need never see
True as every sacred darkness we have shared
She holds me
Above fear
Beyond doubt and all my foolish certainties

Joyless I came to you
Time and again
Dreams all dried to chaff
Barren

Now she stands beside me here
Old Friend
We’ve come to share our joy

H, my love