Oh, How I missed you so,
In the Deep and Dark.

Where I may start to tremble,
You're tell-tale mark.

Oh, why do I so seldom allow you,
To approach me and control me.
Roll me into a ball.

You're an indomitable beast.
Whose whim consumes me,
Initiates my fall,
I thought this was done.

I fancied you gone,
Lost in the wind.

But here I am. At wits end.
I discover its only for you my knees will bend.
The Deep and Dark.

Beside no temple,
Ornamental bridge or boat,
Over a village pond
It leans.
Its elongated leaves
Of many greens
Rise and fall en masse,
A brush of thin branches
Moved by a noontide breeze.
Painting the water.

Neither of us had a slightest clue
How oblivious were we
Of all the magic destined in tomorrows
Sprouting from the spark we ignited
The first time our eyes met each other

Outside that coffee shop.