Felicity

I have longed for you my love

as committed the tanager to sing

my yearn to hear your voice

as watercourses the mountains spring

 

My joy leaps like the springbok

at the thought of coming home

the beating heart within my breast

hungers for you alone

 

When the snow and ice melts

beneath the suns warming heat

the earth without her radiance

what I am do you complete

 

The blossoms in the grasslands

in errand paint their every hue

when your loves my garment

there is nothing I can't do

 

The desert wind drives the sand

exposes parchment there below

nothing here satisfies my thirst

till you I will fully know

 

Lakes reservoir water drains

their brooks plunge unto the sea

desire is my own refrain

till when you live with me

 

When the molten lava flows

to torch all within its reach

the fire that burns within me

the ardor that did me breach

 

I cannot endure without you

you are the sinews to my bones

no cadence  exists in music

 without the ascend of tones

 

All that abides around me 

might as well be dead

apart from your connection

lies lifeless thoughts ahead

 

I want to fly into your arms

as a bird glides to her nest

enclose myself in your embrace

and to there forever rest

 

I see with a heart of woman

for I know no other kind

the person you are consumes me

like you no other will I find

 

Every treasure buried deep in earth

every symphony of notes I hear

less than what conceives your worth

its ecstasy when you are near

 

source Song of Solomon

 

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