YOUR DARKNESS? SHANTHA HULME

your darkness?
but the things that make you shine
my love;
you are the light
   that wakes me up with a surprise whisper
   shift the curtains,  light through a window

transient rays of light that filter through
        reaches my ephemeral life;

your sorrows?
but you dance on the tips of my weary wings;
make me fly;

your unpredictability?
you wade through the depths of my soul
unafraid;
           the storm,   that blew apart my life;
why i love you, and this is why;
you point out my flaws,
cognitive disabilities, how i was too lazy
   to work through those;
you tore my flesh apart;
      mended those, amidst
showers of affection, called me splendid woman;

are you the unkown one....
                  enter without alert...leave without notice;

   you made a  lotus sprout
   in the depts of my interior in the mud of confusion;
   in the sadness of my soul;
   a lotus blooms, petal by petal....its elegance;
   you are magical;