Today I Just Want to Love You

Poetic Bloomings invites us to attempts a  Zymurgy

Zymurgy defined, is the area of applied science related to fermentation. It deals with the biochemical processes involved in fermentation, through yeast. Unless you are a home brew aficionado, you’re probably thinking… What does this have to do with the price of Haiku in Japan?
But for the purpose of the Zymurgy form, we will deal with this fact… ZYMURGY is the very last word in the dictionary. So we will concern ourselves with the “Last Word” of each first and last line of every stanza.
The last word of your title becomes the first word of the first line of your poem.
The last word of  the first line will dictate the number of lines in that stanza. Use that word as an Acrostic in that stanza, with the last word of the last line becoming the first word of your next stanza, stringing your thoughts together.

You cannot fathom the ocean

Or the waves of emotion that surge

Converge, in startling sheerness

Equal elements of strength and weakness

Align, when this heart of mine is

Next to you, next to you

You kindle a daring desire

Darling, how can I define

Embers that leap into fire

Stirred simply by your faint half-smile

I cannot fathom my blessings

Rich beyond reason or rue

Everything is nothing without you, without you

You leave me blissfully breathless

Beautiful agony

Rushing, receding, relentless

Elusive mystery

Assuring me of life’s fullest purpose

Today I just want to clasp,

Have and hold you; no excuses

Life is a precious gasp

Each day a grace-gift from heaven

Some things simply cannot wait

So just let me love you darling, tomorrow may be too late, too late

Janet Martin

Last night a mother/wife in our school community is suddenly and shockingly, a widow.

It wakens in me a renewed awareness of life's fragile thread and Time's precious now and its uncertain end.