Literature
Distant Drums
Sleight of form,
with nearly elfin
features, appearing
delicate to peripheral
glance. Yet gaze
within; behold depths
of her heart, force
of her imagination:
envisioning
seeding
conceiving
anticipating
birthing
creating
re-creating
lives and worlds
anew.
Her beauty is
as her approach
to life: authentic,
artistic, eccentric;
unique, unorthodox,
unbounded in what
she can accomplish,
what she may
become.
Our encounter
unlikely, one few
would anticipate;
yet innately
inevitable: our
gazes fixed upon
same far horizon,
hearts beating in
tune to same distant
drums.
She shines as
star by which my
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