Captive Queen, Wings Of Love Transcending The Night (20) Poem by Captain Cur

I am nestled in thy warm harbor now
A smile just below thy arching brow
Spreading little waves creeping near the shore
Pushing sparkling shells from the ocean floor.
In every tiny facet, wide eyed
Water diamonds glinting in the skies.
And then I ask, 'Wilt thou set my heart free,
This knightly sea mariner on bended knee? '
'Or wilt thou sail and leave thy royal nest
For purple isles residing in the west? '
'Or take wings of love transcending the night,
In matchless beauty deemed, in matchless flight? '
'Or shalt I administer to the sea
A hermit crab for all eternity? '
'Or remain in thy harbor, aloof and good
Practicing the fine art of solitude? '
Though boundaries abide they are not clear
through the mist I scent thy lavender hair
and should my speech grow bold and bolder
once youth strays, wisdom grows old and older;
Then if I could choose for thee a fitting home
Of ever changing tides and towering stone
I would build thee a castle in the skies,
And listen for the advent of the eagle's cry,
With multitudinous fountains and ponds
Bespeckled with the gleam of diamonds;
All through the turrets green ivy winding
In leafy pleasantness inching, climbing
And colossal columns and learned halls
Lined with magnificent spraying fountains
And court thee with the song of nightingales,
In melodious notes that glide on air
And in the abundance of lemon scented showers
We will seed the clouds with ever floating flowers,
Junipers, marigolds, black eyed susan's peek,
No days cumbersome, their aromas sweet
And savory enticing all the brain
In mastery of ourselves, in mastery of pain.
For this world only in our dreams to keep
And build in the elemental rhythms of sleep.