A poem experienced through a glorious gladioli
I look into your face
For a perfect moment the universe is the intoxicating colour of your skin
Richness magnified intensely, my consciousness enfolded in the satiny immersion of your electrifying expression
I am saturated by the iridescent nature of your sepals’ colouring
Enjoying your obedience to the never-ending question of transition
Sleeping reptilian spines, ripening daily, revealing rich cascading blooms
Bursting suddenly, astonishingly, to the irresistible command of a forceful, silently chiming directive
A most remarkably inspiring shedding of skin
Destinies fulfilled
Treacherous, cavernous ways through deadly dunes averted
Songs of the open and blissful heart sung in euphoric harmony
An entire universe of grace, unimaginable beauty
A wormhole transporting me to flowing wells of freedom inside the openness of every blooming shell
The depths I can go to in me through you
As surprising and as beautiful as the never-ending opening of your soul to me
I cannot defy you. I must awaken, enliven, flower in irrevocable glory
Despite the fear that closes on my mind and holds me, trembling, still
I cannot respond to you but with my own blossoming of mind, my voice and my rising, grateful heart
Your petals will fall with the irrepressible illusion of time
My petals will droop and stale, as yours, before the body’s time-felt end
But beyond these death haunted dreams the glory of eternity wakes in the spirit of your irreversible flourishing and my breathless witnessing
I will always know your gifts and hear your song, alive, in this perfect, present heaven
And I will ever know the timeless constancy of our connection, our brotherhood, our love, throughout the ever-expanding infinitudes of mind
Holly Rose Thomas 