Divine Love: Immense Joy III

With eyes set upon forever 

Stood you before me, and I walked

Towards you, my fears from my heart removed,

While I inwardly knew 

You’re the one to stay 

And my heart you won’t slay.

To put what I felt in words 

Impossible were; the example, then, suffice 

You for whom my body opens to.

If I was merely infatuated 

Moved by hungering, this great time, 

I know, wouldn’t lift me to stand on your shoulders!

When now the move, which you did make gracefully 

Desiring me, and made me attentive to it 

Then in me a great fire was kindled 

By your touch’s flame, that neither rain nor river 

Ne’er made it so to douse.

The newness of the body and the great feeling

Aroused in me a longing for thy desire, 

Never before with such burning fire;

Whence you, who saw me as I saw myself, 

To start anew a new day for me, 

Opened thy mouth, ere I did mine to say,

“Beautiful, you be my light 

Brighter than the sun 

To light the dark path of my life –

Be my love.”

If of my former doubt I was unsure 

By these brief little words more smiled than spoken,

I in a new faith and hope was the more ensnared;

My eyes directed towards you with that look 

That said it all –

You are the one I’d been waiting for.