THERE'S NOTHING BEYOND THIS POINT

her beauty

was hard

to understand

soft and a bit whimsical

enduring and fragile

all at once

beneath the spreading

limbs

of the ancient oaks

I took my chance

declared my devotion

embellished with deep

emotion

and we made love

or it made us

who can say?

when the wind sings

so sweetly

and eveything

is complete

and making sense

madness held

at arm's length

for a day

that lasts only

a moment

but I saw there

in her eyes

a sort of earthly

paradise

a promise

where hearts can beat

but not alone

and the deepest

light

glows on and on

yet all things

finally pass

and again

we enter

life's morass

where evil rules

and rudeness reigns

with nothing to embrace

but pain