You, My Love (My Life Poem for Emily)

You, My Love

You inhabit me my love

Grow deep and young inside me

Like a sapling

You sink your roots

They wander

and wonderfully

entangle me my love.

You transfuse me my love

My blood is no longer my blood

For you are present even there

Flowing

Ebbing

Beating

Searching out

my innermost places my love.

You have taken up residence my love

In the furthest reaches

Of the slumber of my sleep

You run with me

Your hand in mine

In impossible places

In surreal dimensions

of my dreams my love.

You come to me my love

A smile that creases my face

An echo of your joy

Surprising me

In the midst of my day

Memories of you

Flash and burn

Images of you

flickering and searing across my mind my love.

You, like a spirit my love

Like the inside of my soul

That I never knew

Before you

Who pulses now always

Inside of me my love.

You, embodiment of answered prayers my love

Extension of grace

Shining down upon me

Soaking into me

Seeping into my every thought

The crown upon my head my love.

You are there in the morning light my love

In my waking moments

I reach for you

I am drawn by the immeasurable gravity

Of your love my love

Against you

Amaranthine rock my love.

You infuse laughter in my life my love

You peal

And beckon me

Your song dances

Your voice

Clarion

Notes floating

And leaping

Whirling

And washing over me my love.

You abide restlessly in my heart my love

Always increasing

Pushing me further

Multiplying passion

Never ceasing

Insatiable hunter

Of my heart my love.

Always always always my love

You will remain the lover of my youth

As we grow old and everything around us decays and rusts

For you and I my love—nothing alters

For you my love

Are Beauty, eternally defined

Tattooed kisses accumulating overlapping everlasting

Across the story of my life my love.

You, the radiant carrier of life my love

Your belly swollen and growing 

Your face beaming and golden

You, emerging and evolving

Into an even higher form of beauty 

Me, falling deeper and deeper into you 

You, Possessor of generations, my love. 

You: succor, nourisher and protector, 

Our babies cling to you

Like vines they surround and grow to you. 

Pillar of strength and zenith of grace

Your love refuses to ebb and only grows

Washing over, sustaining, and imbuing protection

You are the sun and your gravity immense

Pulling us deeper into the chasms—of your love,

Mother and lover of our children my love.

Keeper of the worries, my love

Your heart is open and bare 

where my own toughens

You mother and love without a shield

Absorbing everything 

every tear, every cry

every scraped knee and bruised heart

you take on as your own

Carrier and champion of our hearts , my love.

Beauty amplified and multiplied

You exist outside yourself 

Like a spirit

Each smile on our children's faces

Every sparkle of their laughter

 is your own

Their kisses, their shared embraces exist

Because your beauty and grace seeps 

Into their very core, my love

You my love

Are me

And I

am you.

my love.
We
My Love
We.