Belovèd

Let yourself again and again

Be embraced by my words.

Let them lie around you

Like the coat

That you drape about me

When, in the cool of autumn evenings,

We walk across the fields

Where silver mists

Are sinking early

And breezes stir the grass.

Aimlessly, I roamed

Over the great wide earth,

Oppressed and enticed

By dark

And dazzling sins.

Then you rose

As the sun of my fate.

Your light tempered

All that was rough and raw,

Placed within my waking hours,

All beings and things

From aches to blissfulness.

For, you have united

The tenderness of a girl

With the protective strength

Of a youth.

You are the smiling flower

And illuminating torch.

-And your mouth says

That, weak though I be, to you,

I am, also, divinely fair.