In Me

It says I must not covet

Another person's wife,

But I expressly covet

Another person's life.

Her warmth and luminescence,

Her beauty and her grace,

Her lively effervescence

That shimmers through her face

Its heavenly resplendor

And like a sunset sky

Refracts in pearl and amberT

he how, the where, the why.

I covet all about her -

Yes, even her loss and pain

,Even her rage and heartbreak,

And in me shall remain

Her spirit, bright and restless,

And her delightful mind

Making me hear through deafness

And see by going blind.

She'll give me her white splendor

And her unending joy,

Burn me until mere embers

And all the lies destroy,

Sending her love and sweetness

And tenderness and peace

Her passion and completeness

And her delightful bliss.

I want her whole being

To live within my chest

To me the truth revealing

And never, ever rest -

I want to have within me

All that she is and was,

To torture and to spin me,

And on the rocks to toss

All that is not impassioned

All that is not of light

And in its repercussions

Set everything to right -

I want all that she knows

To live within my soul,

Like, in a vase, a rose

Whose leaves will never fall

But each day will inspire

Gratitude and delight

And make the mind soar higher

To meet the timeless light -

To meet, in its quintessence,

The universe in all

And in her luminescence

To stumble and to fall.

It says I must not covet

Another person's wife

But God himself will know it

I want another's life

To be with me forever

And share with me her soul

From now until the never -

Until the sun will fall -

To take me into starlight

And throw me on the ground

To share, from dawn till twilight,

The splendor that I found.

It says when one I treasure

Is with me no more,

She will remain forever

If I keep loving her

And as I live inside her

And she inside of me

Our souls will become brighter

And set the fancy free

To roam like holy fire

Across the starlit sky

And soar forever higher

And never, ever die

But burn with inspiration

And passion for all time

And bring reification

Of everything sublime

And bring, never-forsaken,

That which has come to pass:

The beauty that awakened

The universe in us,

Sharing the light and bringing

Good fallen in misuse

That through unbridled feeling

Attains the higher truth,

The truth of cosmic process

That burns in all that lives

And never dies or pauses,

But brings all to their knees.

I’ll follow you to heaven

And walk for you in death,

With you I’ll run and travel

Along the narrow path,

I’ll bathe in your delight and

Send you all light and warm,

Your days and nights I’ll brighten

And shield you from the storm,

And if I cannot covet

What is not meant to be

I’ll reap what you have sowed:

All of your life, in me.