Because of you, beloved, none can stay
the orchids blooming in my brain,
the songbirds soaring from my heart,
the lightning flaring in my eyes.
Like that mythical magic stone,
you have changed me from lead to gold.
Life now is a treasure worth guarding,
a mine of capacious feeling,
an eldorado of delight.
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(c) Gregory V Driscoll 2011
