One Eternal Glance

Prating from love...

Last night, a fugitive memory of you,

slid into my heart

as though a wilderness was

quietly touched by spring tide,

as though some breeze came soughing through a desert,

or someone sick, for no reason,

felt reclaimed.

Today my heart feels indebted

to the sorrows of the world.

Each breath is famished for lament.

How profoundly desolate is all concourse of life -

O pain of love, where are you today?

Let me savour 

those sweet lips, that innocent forehead

those beautiful eyes

that I may once again drown

myself in fantasy.

Let a glance of yours gather up

my being into your lap,

so  I may rest, secure in this trap

never to return to life's darkness,

all stains of my past yearnings may be

washed off,

ridding me of the sable forebodings of the future,

Sweeping away all my yesterdays and tomorrows

into oblivion.

Give me, my love, that one eternal glance -

just once!