For Jennifer Poem by Gilbert Ortega

I had sent no invitations
No bottles out to sea
No horsemen in the moonlight
Bringing word of hopes, of dreams or me.

Like a madness you arrived
Unexpected, undenied
When my eyes swept 'cross a sea of vacant souls
And were ever blessed by what they spied.

The crowd parted like dark waters
Like the breaking of a fever
Your light hit me like the aura
Of a million pin points in a river

And I, a rogue and rambler
Stared, as did the banished snake of Eden
With eyes kept too long in darkness
At once demur and eager
To let light in.

I long thought my heart was frozen
Shattered, swept up and disposed of
But, alas, familiar flutters
Did make, willfully, my soul move.

And just as in our times long passed
With your sight, your voice, your warm embrace
My woes and worries disappeared
Were I to be the breeze
That kissed your face.