Visual Sound

Your love/laugh/smile is like visual sound

The crinkle in the corner of your lips is the sound of the quickened thumping of my heart

The twinkle in your eye is the silence in my soul as I wonder if fortune can truly be this kind

The curve of your hand in mine is the subtle patter of young feet, our children who will love you, mommy, forever.

The flash of your teeth is quiet rustling of the winter roses at the heart of our wedding--two stems intertwined--

nuzzling petals blown by the wind

Two symbols of life that will never fade.

Your fingertips are...the sound of my quickened breath

because now and for all time you make me anxious.

--You are--

a vision of beauty

and the sound of a world I want to embrace

the sound of a world I never want to change or leave