(Photo credit: Mahbub Hasan via Wikipedia)
Could I Love You?
In the morning, could I love you?
Sunshine, I, upon your face?
Could I wrap my arms around you?
Give you life by my embrace?
Could I light your eyes with wonder,
Brighten and reveal the world
That your beauty might reflect there,
In a pond no stone has swirled?
In the noontime, could I love you,
Brightly beam upon your cheeks?
Like I shine upon the snow-capped,
Fir-lined breasts of mountain peaks?
Could I be the heat to warm you,
Center of your universe?
Sunlight for your every shadow,
Key and coin for your purse?
In the evening, could I love you,
Send you home with day’s last light,
Warm you for the final journey,
Into God’s eternal night?
All I’m asking: Could I love you
From the dawn to setting sun,
From this moment till forever?
Grant this wish, the only one.
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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2012.
Beautiful, Dennis, absolutely beautiful. And the image “reflects” your words perfectly.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
Wow! The imagery here is so perfect — and continues to be perfect throughout each stanza. I’m touched deeply by the skill that creates this kind of metaphor and keeps it untainted throughout this many stanzas. You have such a gift.
Thanks, Sandra! The phases of the day helped as the sun and I moved along together.
Another very good poem indeed. I’ve read this through a number of times, excellent.
Thanks, Dennis. I’m never sure which poems of mine will be liked the best.
Classically romantic…and so quite beautiful! Well done!
Thank you. I’m hoping that classically romantic is the best since that’s what appeals to me the most.
What a gorgeous love letter!
Thank you!!