Girl Befriended (It’s a Start) -7/16/05

As hands and eyes and beating hearts alive
We stand here at the cusp of what will be;
Behind: the mountains, down in front: the sea.
I can’t yet see the place we will arrive.
If there indeed is any certainty:
Just moments past, held in Megaera’s clasp,
The morning comes just like a sudden gasp
And opens up horizons bold and free.

The firmness of your hand is like a vow;
I pass the line twixt Paradise and Hell,
My face turned toward the Morning Glory’s rise.
So we are here together in the Now,
Perhaps you might replace my Past as well
And I can see the Future in your eyes.