if you have ever

If you have ever watched the warm rain falling,
Reminding you of Nature’s patient geometry
As it circles its existence upon the limpid surface of a pool –

If you have ever caressed the smoothness of rock
As it forms a gentle island
Amidst the whiteness that lies below the sands of reminiscence –

If you have ever drunk in the subtle enormity of clouds
While they danced and swam
The twilight oceans of eternity’s endless sky –

If you have ever breathed the silken lovingness
Of the Moon’s simple poetry,
As it blinks and kindly opines from its own cold remembrance –

If you have ever sung the Nomadic epic stories
Told unto you by the cool and steady ground,
As softly, you conversed with its silent understanding –

If you have ever opened yourself
To the wise and auburn intensity of fire
As its heat became your hope, your pure and selfless Messiah –

If you have ever seen –

If you have ever known –

If you have ever dreamed –

If you have ever –

You will know my name,
And you may call me yours.





SJL: 1st August, 2002