Seeds Of Gladness

with your love, like light

of day, you fill me slowly

to the brim, body and soul

as rivers on rainy days

your sweetness, jar of fresh

wine, full-strength, bubbling

in my belly, beckon to fireflies

and to butterflies to fly low

come home, perch and smell

your sweet scent, to drink

and drown away the secrets

hidden in the circumference

of their teary transiency

my jewel, soft in the skin

metallic in the soul, wearing

white lights like rare earth

elements of lanthanum mould

you met me feeble, a fated

flower in the wild on a day

of drought, dying for drops

of dew on my shrivelling

leaves, on my burning roots

you came, closer, wellspring

of joy, with a sword slaying

my sadness, sowing in me

seeds of immortal gladness