Come

By my window Hope’s heart beats as I sip alone and wonder

At how gray clouds cover the smiling sun and icy rains thunder

Yet nothing dims my love lit passion for Karla Kay.

My warm fingers interlace the golden hair about her face,

And my breath is vented on her cherry scented cheek

As her candy flavored lips my ember kisses seek.

She speaks to me of love like the ancients sought in Venus

While her lingering touch and my desire bring up in us

A heavenly passion that even a ten thousand cherubim choir

Could never on their sea of glass inspire.

So blessed are we and so well do I know it, does she?

How do I tell her that my heart cannot be free

While held by her charm, that her love has made of me

One who would carry fire and endure the marathon

Of fidelity and swear to uphold Love’s torch always if she

Would be wedded to me until and beyond the trumpet call?

How do I keep her love for the remainder of our earthly days?

How do I ask her to again agree to be my faithful one always?

Perhaps she will see in a vision of the night,

As her restless souls encounters in flight

A glimpse into the future where enamored us prevail,

Where Love's great might is proven right and true

When vows founded on Faith are made anew

As Love tears the veil and all walls between us fall.

Has not one greater than we paid forgiveness’ supreme price

And secured redemption by superhuman sacrifice

That we might love each other evermore and be as one?

I pray she be with me again before this day is done.

Vicente Reyes

Spring, 1996

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Original English & Spanish translation by Vicente Reyes, all others by SYSTRAN

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