I'm in love with a ghost

I’m in love with a ghost,
In love with a phantom,
In love with a shadow
That just disappeared,
In love with a rope
That just whipped round the corner,
In love with a wink
That lived so brief,
In love with a memory,
In love with a moment,
In love with the mountain’s peak,
In love not with someone
But someone elated,
In love with what could be.
The sword pierces over and over through me
Once the ghost walked through me and left his mark.
I, too, am a phantom; isn’t it fitting I find
My match in a moment’s spark?
My love’s hard to reach when he’s everywhere,
In minutest acts or a loaded stare,
In the sun over leaves,
In beauty, in what comes naturally from thee.
I’m in love with a phantom,
In love with a ghost,
The sun’s reflection over the sea,
The interplay between lapping waves
And how closely we speak by the shore,
In love with the words that can find no words,
I’m in love with the melody,
In love with the spirit
I glimpse sometimes,
Unquenchingly, achingly.

04/14/11