Rare Love Declared

From a slow-lit warmth it came
this love matured – a glow-
grown gem of crystal flame
– a lifetime lustre assured.

Reflected there in their avid eyes
seeking, dear in the need of those
eyes in meeting, etched in an
equality of expression agreed.

It is a love of pure faces polished
and proud, a love that graces the
hands held strong, the hearts loud,
a bare bones love that belongs.

It is a love pared in the joyful tears
shed by those near; it is a love worn
with shoulders squared and heads held
erect – indeed, a rare love declared.
© 2007-02-18, I.D. Carswell