O skyline likeness of my love
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 9:27 am
O skyline likeness of my love, I laugh—
how sad and sure this poor analogy
illumines all my love. So pity me—
(perhaps you would, were you but some mirage,
but two-dimensional and far away).
As much as it appears you stilt the breeze
by pillars clustered (as if hands stretched out
above your face delight among the clouds),
you only fit such view at distance. Please,
may not my eyes receive you close? I pray
behold you intimate; and dry frottage
replies all fate. What gray finality
you lovely there possess, that finely I
resign myself to gaze on you and laugh.
how sad and sure this poor analogy
illumines all my love. So pity me—
(perhaps you would, were you but some mirage,
but two-dimensional and far away).
As much as it appears you stilt the breeze
by pillars clustered (as if hands stretched out
above your face delight among the clouds),
you only fit such view at distance. Please,
may not my eyes receive you close? I pray
behold you intimate; and dry frottage
replies all fate. What gray finality
you lovely there possess, that finely I
resign myself to gaze on you and laugh.