Desire

Desire

When I was born
I was so many baby boys.
A foreign Prince
The one no one loved
A single man’s salvation
On my own

Desire was sunlight & laughter
But storm clouds gather
Around a boy that challenges the gods.
It took 36 years to emerge
From a cocoon of anger & fear.

A new desire,
Of lavender & earth
the scattering of tiny moles,
become a familiar constellation.
Quiet laughter in the rain
Small hard worked hands
That ease my suffering

A new desire,
she cast a light like the moon,
adding an air of cool mystery.
she is a summer storm,
a warm blanket,
cool rain
& the first sunlight after.

I found there are only shadows
because her light remained.
She was made for me & I for her.