For Shahrizod...

I wrote this several years ago for Shahrizod, she of the most serenely beautiful eyes, an island of solitude in a storm-tossed sea... 

Your Loveliness Is Magical

You can take a man's heart, cast it up into the air, and magically change it into a thousand rose petals,fluttering downward softly, their beautiful fragrance fills the air with a wonderful perfume.

Your beauty is angelic.

It is warm and sweet and kind and embraces the soul, lifting it up, higher and higher, floating free, a heart turned into a thousand butterflies, the beautiful lightness of the heavenly divine.

Your beauty is legendary and entrancing.

There is a man lost in the desert, the sun beats down upon him, his water is gone, his life is ebbing away... and yet he smells a divine fragrance, ambrosia-tic, he knows he must go to the scent. He struggles, the sun is merciless, but he finds his way. It is a rose that awaits him.

The most perfect, beautiful, beyond compare, rose he has ever seen and beside it is a spring. He kisses the rose in thanks and kisses the water in refreshment... and sleeps, his head resting by the rose. 

Morning dawns and he is ready to leave and finish his journey out of the desert... and the urge is great to take the rose that saved him with him. But it would destroy its enchantment, so he says goodbye with regret, and takes one last look at such a thing of beauty and will keep its memory in his heart and dreams...

Words of love and beauty can be truly inspiring. We all seem to have a desire to pursue love, at times it consumes our every thought, wildly driving us into the throes of passion when love is found or heartache and despair when love is unfulfilled or lost.

What is love anyway?

Image Credit: https://italianrentalblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/gallery-the-mountain-oasis-of-chebika-tunisia/mountain-oasis-chebika-2/