We were far from slaving city shops
where madding crowds dared not go
Silken trees ushered untread paths
beneath our feet glistened snow
Crystallized flakes graced tongues
fondly touching time we shared
Only hours before this moment
We bathed naked unimpaired
Nestled in heavenly warmth
where misty raindrops spray
We dissolved into each other
A tub adrift in winter’s day
Years fled like illiterate dreams
forged in youth’s myopic vision
We laughed over distances
Poseidon’s realm forgiven
Vulnerability disappeared
bridged in one embrace
Craving everything new
beyond leather and lace
Perfectly flawed mortals
spirited on winter’s day
We felt each other deeply
in the tub where once we played
Our eyes met present moment
woods enlivened in sound
Impeding steps before us
Trees thundered branches down
Startled birds sped ascending
climbing higher ground
We looked on astonished
In witness of beauty found
Embittered little moments
flew about in broken time
Imperfect perfections
shivered winter’s rhyme
Brisk winds electrified
reminding strides ahead
Iced wood did now litter
paths we feared to tread
Tea cups cracked underfoot
imprinting life’s crooked mile
Visions homeward tantalized
Delirious in warmth’s sun-kissed smile
Frost-bitten moments melted
in flurries of you and me
All that was yesterday
reassured our possibility
Belief’s water a desert stone
inner avalanches unraveled
Perdition or forgiveness
Our faith is the road less traveled
A tub adrift in winter’s day
We are naked
Cleansing soil turned in Spring
Unimpaired
We are paths in bloom
Resilient in prayer
Summer will come again
(c) 2015 S L Jennings aka Sandy Somewhere “Naked Unimpaired” poem
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