11/30 TO LOVE YOU

(for Judy)

To love you is to glimpse a taste, a foretaste,

of what heaven must be like or else a memory

of the garden paradise that Eden must have been

before the serpent bearing succulent seduction in apple-

coated sin with syllables of sibilance slithered its way in,

crawled and climbed and wrapped itself around the tree

of knowledge and plucked the fruit of death.

There is a harmony bred of maturity that only those who

experience will ever know; how we no longer ever quarrel

and fight, how we understand each other, sometimes

without utterance of a word, understand that there is more 

to love, much more to love, than youthful passion.

Yes there is regret, regret we never met in those early lonely

years of volatile and futile searching for that soul-mate 

until we found each other, found a rib-love,

a love like Adam must have known and felt and shared

with Eve on the evening of the first day of their bliss.

Never in my wildest flights of optimistic fantasy, my love,

my heartbeat, did I dream this time would ever come

when I am almost unable to write another love song 

because there is no sadness left in our love
to write about except to say that one day...

For should I ever lose you it would be like losing sleep,

losing myself forever to the deeper sleep to come.

©2013 by G Newton V Chance