Our Rose Garden Island

Your radiance is like sunshine bloomed rose

Sweetness wrapped in mauve,

Glowing of natural morning dew, even upon the evening.

Authentically uncalculated in approach

Your voice a melodic whisper

Communicating curiosity and wonder.

 

I gaze into your eyes for hours

Pulled deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole

Of untamed questions and musings,

Honey heavy on our lips.

We watch the sunset together

And though it’s far too cold, we commit to the feeling.

Seeking maps to our own internal saunas.

 

Cotton candy skies whisper to me,

“Be free and notice the sweetness.”

Surrounded by perfume scented earth,

We are in anew,

Grounded and awake.

I fantasize that no one else is around

For this moment is ours.

 

Together we exchange seeds of thought

And I am gifted a remembrance

Simple and succinct

To slow down and be here now.

How easy this is to forget.

 

Hummingbird thoughts flicker throughout my mind

As my butterfly center dances

And teeth chitter chatter.

The words won’t come out quite right, but that’s okay.

I listen intently to your wavering words and breath easy

For it’s not just me.

 

The ever-changing sky draws a pink bridge

Hovering above us as we shiver

At our rose garden island.

I meld into the moment and notice the moon

Reflected too in your eyes.

Now I see.

 

Now we contemplate archetypes, time, and to be

In a daze of symphonic melancholy

And sustained enchantment.

We are saturated in starlight

Existing in untethered love

Partaking in our own communing sacrament.

Our velvety vehicle to the vast above.

 

I forget all the rest and welcome profound stillness.