Of Phantom Glass

The fabric of midnight melts away

How subtle its blanket slips

The silk-smooth edge of another day

Spills from Time’s tempestuous lips

The deepened shroud above the cloud

Pales from its onyx hue

Grace lights dawn’s wick, a candlestick

Of periwinkle-blue

And I love you…

The phantom glass through which smiles pass

And sundry tears and fears

Will not recast the ocean vast

Of moments shaping years

We touch our feet to mystery

To tread its tide anew

Folding what is to history

‘I did’ claims our ‘I do’

…and our ‘I love you’

The tick of clocks and unhinged locks

Cannot refund one hour

The backdrop of longing and love

Courses from vaulted bower

I dare not waste the touch, the taste

Of moments trickling through

Mercy’s embrace of wondrous grace

From heaven's avenue

For I love you…

Forever

If there is never

Anything more I do

It will be a life well lived

Because I love you

J~