My Silky Leaves Find Yours — A Love Poem

My silky leaves find yours,
In your snowy, glistening gems.
Squeezed between these enchanted hills,
Are the marble pillars of our friendship.
Water slides down the deck of your knowledge,
Where I both show and hide the tremor of my desires.

It’s hard to be indifferent, all this time,
When I knew something was there but not quite yet.
A snow drift catches at my brow,
Casting more shadows across my face.
Monsters of grass try to snatch my attention,
But all my attention was for you,
At least for now.
Just like the turbulent turquoise and blue of the ocean,
My feelings are both true and uncertain.

A humming music
Shifts through your fingers and mine.
We don’t chime,
Not in the way that I would like.
But it’s better to have some gossamer film between us,
Than to share nothing but an empty space.
Our music is fragile as a dragonfly’s wing,
So gorgeous yet so easy to lose.

Imagine a small, clear pond
That reflects the truth.
What would I find in it?
Shining pearls decorating our future?
Or a daunting, black-and-white forest that traps us inside?
I leave you to consider the strangeness of our affections.
When our minds are in turmoil,
Our roots cut through the soil,
The shoots grow as best as they can,
Until they wind through
An odd patch of air
And find each other somewhere,
In this atmosphere of glass.

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Originally published in 100 Stories by 100 Writers on Nov 13, 2022