Poem2021-02-28T08:31:17+00:00

Beauty Steals the Stage

By: Sylvia Leigh

You,
my love,
are a paradox...
A mind-bending twist
of flesh and fantasy.
The strangest things occur
whenever you are near.

Your smile precedes you
and the very heart
of essentia
seems to dissipate.
Flowers and foliage are drained
of magnificent color
and rather appear
in dull dreary
shades of
water-colored gray.

Stars cease to shine and
light fades to darkness as
Beauty steals the stage...
In like manner,
the moon reverentially yields
her undisputed eclipse
to the shadow of your infinite light.

Dissimilarities abound
throughout all of nature.
And absolutely everything
becomes nothing at all...
in one moment of you.

I swear this
by all that is...
You,
spirit and flesh,
naughty nymph and
coveted angel...
You are the essence
of lust and life...
You may as well
blush in constellate shame...
How dare you
indenture all heaven and earth!?
You’ve transgressed
the course of galaxies
and now
Heaven pales
in desperation,
while
resting beneath your
sensual touch.