Inspired by the quote "True love comes quietly" by Erich Segal

You whispered through sermon notes, pleading.
Then hushed giggles diffused any dark tone
we had found throughout our week, throughout our lives apart
and we unburdened together.
So completed was I by your love, I was blinded from it.
And months passed
And time subtracted from our lives
And winter kept me so entirely deaf
to pleas you offered so entirely
faithful that I would someday understand.
After all that was shared and cherished
Had you believed it all in vain?
Then a single ray of spring pressed
through the colored glass and landed
on your soul, which shone with such
force and melody, at once
my heart was yours.
And their dull frowns were blinded by our
new radiance.
And I squeezed your hand entirely
submerged in the quiet, warm, bright of your love.


Dated 5-4-2005 for Sr. Poetry