Red Wine and Orchid
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Eyes closed.
You open a door
for me to enter
to an endless wonder
of love!
Slowly autumn!
Red wine
& the orchid comes
from nowhere
on my birthday.
Gentleman's flower,
according to
our ancestor's artistry,
but delicate
and fragile like a sleeping
beauty you rest
among books on my desk.
You brought peace
to my universe of crazed sounds
& unnamed wounds!
I sit quietly
with you
admiring your limbs, eyes
and the slow blossoming
that makes my day
worthwhile.
I wonder what makes you
gentleman-like.
What is a "gentleman"?
Suddenly
I come to know myself,
in you, who also needs water
and care from loving hands
like any other plant
that never dies
before sharing
its beauty.
---ZZ. summer '04
