"Jewel"
Watched it all through the lenses
of a boy without defenses.
That’s when the world was ugly,
and I hadn’t developed senses.
Crippled imagination,
built up wisdom with cunctation,
my peers all mocking smugly.
Assent, their single fixation.
I survived adolescence.
Thoughts, a cultural excrescence.
Could everything be broken?
Just a jest of convalescence.
I knew I’d end up finding
how to loosen up the binding.
And when the words were spoken,
swift, the future went unwinding.
“I do.” She said. And I too.
We wed and were reborn anew.
But where would we set our sights
but a happiness overdue?
The life we’d made extended,
though after some life had ended.
She swims through days, sleeps through nights.
Loved as I’d always intended.
A mystery, pain, torment.
And virtue, we misrepresent.
Fire is hot, and ice is cold.
And naught I can do to prevent.
But love is warm. Courage, cool.
So allow these to be your fuel.
I’ll teach her then, to be bold,
shine in the sun like a jewel.
