~SLUMBERS' PREDAWN LIGHT~

When I awake from slumbers' predawn light,

burnished stars continue engaging to peer through.

Searching that stead still warm from your body,

aroma embedded in smooth sheets left imbue.

~*~

Should a dream escape me in such haunting fear,

my mind searching for consolation by your presence.

Knowing brushed touches bear traces upon my skin,

leaving a feeling of extraordinarily omnipresence.

~*~

If night's chill eases within my innermost soul,

pursuing such winds that bellow through fallen leaves.

No harm can they cause in their twisting movement,

captured with others which cling among eaves.

~*~

For you are the Prince who shields all destruction,

enveloped in arms encasing every moment attended.

Casting all doubt, illusions overlap and expressed,

what a wondrous world nigh to magic so splendid.

~*~

Foregather the coming of two who become one,

in a stealthy manner, this thief he does take.

Unified hearts relinquish claims for non other,

the dance underneath, timidly tremulous quakes,

~*~

What more shall we ask than common bonded,

linked tapestry, faded pastel charms exclusive.

Lovers who partake nectar’s sweet pleasures,

dwelling eternity life's conceptual reclusive.

~*~

Captured, locked away in timeless minutes,

in passing pure shadows, my own perception.

Quintessence arise, merge elements beholding,

subsequent events, visible and unfolding inception.

~*~

When I awake from slumbers' predawn light,

burnished stars continue engaging to peer through.

Searching that stead still warm from your body,

aroma embedden in smooth sheets left imbue.

copyright

Katherine Raborn

11/30/2002

"When Two Are One"

Bruce De Boer

copyright 2001