My Only Poem by Sean C. Harrison

Deep within for lifetimes I've kept you close,
The phantom love I could not find
For years interred beneath the rubble
Of failings and fears,
My hope faintly flickering that one promised would come
In her inner beauty shattering my tears.

That she should show me grace
Enough to colour me needed
Takes my breath and raises me from death,
Kindling every hope snuffed out like a candle.

Deep within for lifetimes I've kept you close.
Now here you stand in flesh,
So rare I cannot hold you.
I must only behold you speechless.
And whatever words do come
Never suffice to tell my heart,
That if we part though not now entwined
I will never know another.
For you are my only:
No one else coming close
None replacing now or ever
The joy of your self-effacing splendour.