Prelude
If words have any power to adequately convey
The depths of being whence shoot forth
The wellspring of sensation
Were language endowed the mechanism to
Capture the full experience of a living heart
If wisdom in her great benevolence has blessed
These wretched hands with any lucidity of thought
Or clarity of true picture
These lines must show
Angelic Rose
Bursting forth with spectacular radiance
She entered my life
Awakening the dawn
With a countenance of dazzling splendor
Precious and brightly beaming
Had I the power to gaze
An astounding constellation of incredibility
Resplendent beyond all else
With so divine a song
Upon streams of potent melody
A smile lustrously ablaze
As embers at the breathing wind
Glowing like choicest rubies stricken by the sun
On her affection found no greater aim
In her my soul soared
An ardent union
A magnificent bliss surpassing all former want
Yet from deepest recess
A vacuum consumes
A convulsion a writhing
Withered I thirst
Earnestly I seek
As deep cries out to deep
Then You
The source of angelic glow
Love’s pure light
How I’ve longed for your unfailing love
Whelming as the mighty tide
Yet bursting not
To behold your essence
The source and limit of all good
A joy unspeakable
A gladness unutterable
Embrace me in warmth eternal
For there is none like you
Beauty perfected
Living water consume
Take my life
I surrender
Crown at last thy bloom
