I saw a bright star on a summer's eve

and knew it, instantaneously. It

summoned me with incandescent pertness,

with luminous, firefly flirtatiousness,

audacious frisk-riskiness and knew it

for what it really meant; so, trembling went.

~

I crossed fiery deserts with soft-toed ship -

lone caravan, a dromedarian-

slow-swaying beast; ceaseless rhythmically, yet,

unhurried, unworried by hardships met,

the wisest of quadrupeds. At night, I

scried the sky for guiding light, pulsated

messages communicated and I

sighed, hobbled grateful, unburdened camel,

tried to sleep, not to weep with loneliness.

~

Now I've come. Far horizons have drawn near,

I come with gifts. All that I can afford,

then something more; I look not for reward;

all that my baobab heart has stored for

countless years is unconditionally

yours; I seek repose and humbly offer

true gold: an uncorrupted soul, a core

as yet untouched, untrammelled by cruelness,

Frank and Sense and more common scents, as well,

and priceless myrrh

.......................................but I cannot bring you Her

and with that you must be content and if

my un-bushelled love is not enough and

you wish me gone, I will go; no murmur,

no reproach, no retaliatory blow.