More love poem

What a lovely poem I received in response to my eclipse poem!  Am I the luckiest man alive, or what?

what was it that I knew the first time I saw you?

could I know
that for you
I would be like snow
erasing all the crusted footprints
scarred in long ago.

could I see
I met my match
finally
a man who can see me
all the way in
and see me
all the way through
and still raise me a few

Did I see?
I’m certain I did not.
And yet, I felt
the breeze of it
smiling in your voice
peeking from the sky
of your unflinching eyes
curling at the corners of your mouth,
as you listened to my secret life
laid astonishingly bare
like peeled fruit on the table,
or a too-hastily unwrapped present
for a strangely familiar stranger.
Perhaps it was too soon to know
or just too soon to admit
the thing that I already knew:
I’m crazy, mad
in love with you.

I glimpsed the eye
of your perfect storm,
and every petal
of our garden
called me
with mysterious scent.
And in my throat
I begged a god
(in whom I wish
I could believe)
Please oh please
just let him come,
please oh please
just let him see
the magic orchard round the bend
let him see,
and flirt with me.

Let him have the heart and vision
the courage and the trust,
let this lion rest awhile
let the rain wash off
his dust.

Come lie down by our river
and drink deep, sweet king,
and all your lost
and stolen treasures
we will bring,
one by one,
and all your noble beauties
I will sing

every night

like the mockingbird
enchanted
in your verdant valley
drunk upon your
ripened figs

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