To Elsa

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To Elsa

She breathes her life as if it were champagne

fizzy and funny to the tongue, but intoxicating, scintillating,

diamond bright and dazzling to the mind

Her gentleness is tempered only by cruelty

for love is stronger than death

but burns hotter than fire

To refuse her gaze is madness

for who could deny this beauty?

but to enter in is to lose all hope of control

As a princess born, royalty flows in her veins, for she is as nature,

without the boundaries of logic or reason that any man understands,

her hunger roars inside her until the strong grovel at her feet, she is perverse

The timing of her seasons is as the Creator designed, capricious and lively

no whimsy of mortal man may challenge her springtime, it is pure

when summer arrives all rejoice in her warmth for her blessings are freely shared

What beauty is lacking in her encompassing affections? Only the crooked and broken contrast of pain

for she gives herself to another, her bounty and pulchritude are denied me

there is no harvest offered to me, who once was at one with all of creation,

Never again to join the celebration of her love.

Didn't we almost have it all?

When love was all we had worth giving

The ride with you was worth the fall my friend

Loving you made life worth living