Ariel

Ariel

From my mundane mezzanine I peer into the waning light,

My charcoal heart beats slowly, yearning to ignite

As the sinking sun seeps gold and red upon the wooded crown

I feel as if the last day of my life is slowly winding down

Somehow I know the walls that separate all worlds shimmer and grow weak

When fiery Sol leans down and kisses Terra’s sweet and fertile cheek

A mad man’s quest I tell myself as I watch shadows spread ‘cross the forest floor

And I but a childish man drunk on myth and half -forgotten lore

Was then I saw a flash of white appear and drift up into a leafy bough

A phantom draped in silver mist had crossed the gulf somehow

At once my heart fluttered and flew out like a bird freed from my prison chest

Was then I knew an unseen door had opened to Ariel’s bright unearthly crest

Aflame with childlike glee I leapt from my porch and ran wildly toward the trees

And as I raced a fawn like angel fluttered down, her beauty buckled both my knees

Blue diamond eyes smiling through a shimmering fall of golden sunlit tresses

All my longings hopes and needs her presence so sweetly now addresses

With tilted head and timid smile she glides to me and takes my trembling hand

Then off we fly through burning sky to Ariel to that fabled silver strand