Iris

    We sat together till the gloaming fell,
    The twilight gaieties of evening joy
    Made mask of nothing as the choral bell
    Rang pulses of her temper coy.
    
    I reached my hand to touch her sparkling heart
    And felt the childhood sunshine in its prime
    And rocks iridescent - the hidden part
    Of memories that filled my time,
    
    I tried to save her from the worldwide hive
    To show the frozen stars and molten sun,
    She caught me in the hairnet silk to rive
    The link to where the hell seemed done,
    
    That time we left the shore where shadows twirled
    Beneath the sunset calmness of the past,
    And far beyond our fortune we were hurled
    To see the beam for souls aghast.
    
    We played the careless game behind the veil,
    The waterfall of dew-drops fenced my bliss,
    Beside the soaring of the clouds frail
    The fluid daylight swirled our ease,
    
    Inside its gleaming cascades we did swap
    The varicolored necklaces of splash,
    We walked along the secret downward slope
    To reach the edge of rapture flash.
    
    In through the calm of the forbidden room
    With windows opened in the summer night
    She carried me away from usual doom,
    Down to the Eon of the Quiet.
    
    Unfathomable fluid endless tide
    Has led us to the depth of tranquil hours,
    Beyond the bound of oblivion, deep inside
    The interconfidence of ours.
    
                        1997 Feb 4
    
    

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