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To Smile Upon Your Face
You circle round me, sheltering and protecting my light.
You move through me, piercing my day, consuming my night.
And yet I cannot hold you nor bring you to my breast.
You evolve and change so swiftly, never ceasing to rest.
You bring mystery, power, color and swirls of lusty shade.
Yet you can brood forcefully and with a wisp again may fade.
You can be flowing and insubstantial alluring in your shape.
Seeing your body, my mind goes powerless, my thoughts agape.
So how shall I pursue you, catch you to be my own?
My love cries out to you in so many a thunderous moan.
I must stare upward as my heart searches out loud
And there I see your beauty in every passing cloud.
Yet to rashly grasp love would wilt the blossom of my fate
So I must stand impatient, yearning at love’s gate.
Then to have the luck of love’s fortune and earn your grace
Is my hope to last forever, that I may smile upon your face.
from The Bench, Love on a Park Bench 5 by Kevin Farran