LOVE POEM

I love the cool simplicity of you

that you're not complicated,

that I know how to please you

and the shape of happiness today

will be the same in a year.

 

I love the way you wake and stretch

towards the promise of morning,

that neither unkindness nor injustice

have tainted or diminished you.

 

You are spring dawn perfume

the suggestion of distant coastlines,

a wild enigma asleep in my arms

and it's unreal you're satisfied with me

when you could have the world.

 

Praxis Magazine, October 2020. Editor Michael Emmanuel.