I favor her with endless pride
Shelved in solitude, high above all things
How she sheds wondrously
Kept in ivory splendor
Robed in mystery,
As the silent lender of romance

Tribulation halts
As the fear in me shrivels and dies
Domineering, within the cloudless heavens

Only you
Prevail over dormant eves
Still goddess of faultless porcelain

Only for you
Do I meet with gracious ecstasy
The conqueror of my rest
At the threshold of my gleaming reveries

And yet
She breeds nights of water
Mournfully cascading upon the lingering earth
Her anguish, streams down each humble rooftop
Along each lowly fence
And through my barren windowsill

Her heartache slithers along my bed sheets
Defiant, against the snarling and scowling shadows
Her gloomy essence, nestles along mine
A pain kept at bay
To dwell, safe within me