Our love is a covenant of death
Thou and I - we are bound to one another in a pledge of holocaust
And mutual adoration
In the riven streets the memory of thy voice cries out to me
I turn and search for thee frantically, into the gales of time
But thou art not there
Republics and empires rise and fall,
And nations and tongues expand or contract like tides
Still I search for thee
And
(I remember thy sweet touch, and the feel of thy lips against mine,
And thy soul, vast, encompassing thee, beautiful,
And the warmth of one soul caressing another - souls, not bodies)
I died when I saw thee
My life became thy toy, thy plaything -
I gave it to thee freely (without thee it was worthless)
Thou art my end and my beginning;
I am autoincarnate in thy love
Thy touch is the reason for my existence
Thy face
my god -
I have looked upon the face of Dian
Thy eyes are Urim and Thummim (thou art my deity)
I remember thy fingers upon my face and on my neck
And I remember kissing thee - thy eyes - thy ear - thy mouth
I remember
I bury my ghost in thy embrace
No other reality than this I know
Amo, ergo sum
For thou art deep as a thousand seasons -
In the oceans of thy soul I swim
And thy depths are cool to me (thou art fire and water)
The slick winds press round me -
I am lost - (high on Shechem's cross)
Thy silver voice is battered by the wind
The gales of time roll over us
(We are anointed by the gods of death)
Yet I remember thee
© Brνan Iorwerth Cook 1998