Have I Told You? Poem by Jon Blanes

Have I told you oceanic girl
how many moons I see in you
how many burning stars I see fall
from your soft ochre eyes?

Have I told you that the grass turns from green
to fragrant pink with every step of your bare blossom feet?
Have I told you that suns burn in your sacred heart
and that all the tears you have cried
shine like diamonds in your raven locks?

Have I told you that your silence speaks as beauty
like autumn leaves falling to the redolent earth,
like your dark hair raging against a blue sky of desire?
Have I told you that my nights grow so long
and my days grow so lonely without you?
That my eyes are aflame when I think of you
my heart rising like a golden dawn,
then setting like a blood red sunset when you are here?

Have I told you all this my love?
I have told you so much that I forget what I have said.
You know how it is,
when love sets your tongue loose
and your heart grows free,
you forget everything.