THE LIGHT OF VOWS

A kiss sends sanguine streaks through the spirit,
slithering in seductive shivers in the heart,
head spins from the waves washing their intensity,
love glowing so incredibly hot
from the vow that brings ablaze to the inside.

Hope becomes an enchanted flame
thinking that one life by a single gesture of virtuous passions
should become a fortress,
sheltering your trust,
feeling so serene in the shade
of its swaying verbal incense.

Eyes swim the sincerity in surrender,
this pledge drapes as a quilt in peace
woven with ardent and zealous threads,
serving as the silk to dress one’s fears,
quietly adorned by the mesmerizing feel,
entranced in the way the fabric of fervor
have such an enduring sense of strength.

Dwelling under that magical caress
where there is only the dream,
the pure, unblemished veil of belief
how this garment sewn by another’s throbbing needle
will never break or fail,
regardless how hard it is stretched.

What ecstasy explodes from a fire
words ignite with their match of sincerity,
sad is the darkness that consumes with betrayal,
when that shield being held before the gaze
reflecting a guardian’s face,
turns to ashes of fabrication
and what seemed a steel in resolved
melts as ice cream on a summer day.

The mouth who forged its resolution
fades as a wisp of disillusionment
into your night ravaged by tears,
for a promise is only as true
as the heart that speaks it into being