To Go Straightforward Towards All That You Love

your voice
your eyes
our silences
our words
light that goes
light that returns
one single smile
between us both
from needing
to know
i watched
the night
create the day
without change
to our appearances
o beloved
of all beloved
of one alone
in silence your mouth promised to be happy
further and further, hate says
nearer and nearer, love says
through a single caress we leave our childhood
more and more i see the human predicament
as a dialogue between lovers
the heart has but a single mouth
everything by chance
everything said without thinking
sentiments drift away
men roam the city
a glance, a word
and because i love you everything moves
one need only advance to live
to go straightforward towards all that you love
i was going towards you
i was perpetually moving towards the light
if you smile, it is so that you can trespass within me
the aurora of your arms are pearls piercing the mists
--paul eluard (from "the capital of pain")

Confucius and Mencius Temples from outside Slate Canyon (top)
view west from Horseshoe Mesa (middle)
Cape Solitude with raven (below)