Back Where I Began

Others would scold me for having strayed so far for so long, but you were always the one to understand and to be patient, infinitely patient with me and my childish demands upon life. And now I’ve returned and found you waiting, smiling, expecting my return but not patronizing me or humiliating me but just welcoming me to begin where we left off. Oh light of my life. Your smile is warmth, your eyes are wisdom and understanding. Understanding deeper than any sublunary pairing might ever offer, you’ve seen the worst in me and still embrace me without a moment’s hesitation. You eye me and love me like a god even as I fall prostrate before you. I give myself over to you totally and unreservedly, only so you give me right back to myself. This perfect love has traced a circle and taken me back where I began, back to you, back to my Venus, my grail. How many failures did it take before I ceased to make excuses for myself? It seems far too many, and yet you’re still unsurprised, and now that I acknowledge my limits you grant me a freedom I’ve never known, to write my name across the sands of  eternity and to stand by you, to be taken in by you and feel the aweful and beautiful drama of our noon together. Sweet Muse, chaste Diana, my one and only, my unconditional soulmate, let us walk together until the ground falls from underneath us and we fly towards the sun- The Sun which guides us towards our destiny, eager to embrace us both, to melt us into the light which we always were and always and forever will be.