Wildflower

You are the most beautiful
And kind person I can come to be beside
You are the wildflower under the winter cold
And I am the snow you brighten by your nearness

I would love you with all my soul
If only my soul would obey

Then love me with your form
Freeze my petals with your touch
Arrest a youthful desperation inside my stem
With the rapture only you provide

You are the snow on a silent twilight
And I am the wildflower you suffocate with soulless lust

I would love you with all my soul
If only your soul would hear me

And see tears from burning eyes?
See broken towers which held their hopes and dreams
Fall in the sea of crying will?
Never would I bear to see such sorrow
On any countenance I can protect
To have grief in its expression
Only shows my weakness

I wish to be strong
Enough to hold those columns
And sills of marble and gold
That I can hear elated music
Of a being at peace
Whom never sleeps in hunger
And never wakes to tragedy

I would love you with all my soul
If only my soul would obey
So that I may bear witness
To the greatest act I am able

I love you with all that I am
I wish for your happiness
I yearn to see your smile each day
To colour white chill
And melt my doubt away

For you are my wildflower
And I would rather die
Than see you perish in the winter cold