the velvet ropes of love

Like bending light, Your divinity

leans towards my loving heart -

while I am meltingly undone by Yours.

With every gentle touch I feel

the tender binding tighten;

and as it tightens You too consent

to being tied by the velvet ropes of love.

An excerpt from the full poem,
To be published in The Rose in the Mirror.

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