Because of your love

By X. Z. Shao

Because of your love,

it seems that I were taller than a mountain,
stouter than a diamond.

Because of your love,

it seems that I were less significant than a speck of dust,
weaker than a bubble.

Love’s ecstasy is a feather in the air.

I am so in tune with everything I encounter,
with a smile like honey in the heart of a flower.

Love’s burden is so heavy,

I am grim-faced as a soldier in the battlefield,
trying to rescue you from the talons of Time?

Your love is such a baby nestling in my arms,

how could I protect it from all encroaching elements
and carry it safely to the hall of eternity?

          Evening, October 17, 2011