Retrato Rojo

Cool as softly flowing spiral of white,
Warm as the blood in your eyelids on a hot summer's day...
But weave the sunlight in your hair!
And forever calm like a placid lake surrounded by measureless oceans of space
So remember every place and keep them locked in your facet: tucked away so tight singing only when you sleep

A resentment ripples in the lake...
Oh! How that should be shared
Imagination turned you many ways,
Many days and many hours,
Your  head filled with flames and your arms draped in flowers

The word you loved,
but couldn't bear to hear.
For the smiling moon,
and troubled midnight
will never disappear.