O Flower-Heart

1/19/06

O flower-heart you have my soul betrayed

To beauty with your almond eyes of love.

O young and god-desirous dark-skinned maid

Who travels through my life a pleasure-trove

Of laughter that wakes the sunrise of the morn,

Whose tears once spilled in rivers down your cheeks

When parting left you desolate, forlorn.

O child of timelessness who ever seeks

The light it once had held that now seems lost

In the turbulence of youth, the drama's flow,

Around you the unnatural and forced

Far from the golden path on which you go.

But I have seen behind the human veil

The Truth of you and know it cannot fail.