Solamente llenas mi alma de alegría

Without you close to me, my heart

Is like shards of shattered eggshell, brown

brittle leaves swirling across cracked

Black asphalt of the distance between us.

At night I pull my pillow close

And imagine your body

next to mine and I dream

of amber daylily, swaying

In the sweet summer breeze and leaves

of elm whisper your name

I dream I hold you beneath pale blossom

Of magnolia, petals heavy with pollen

And kiss your lips, silky smooth

like slick waxy leaves.

Like pink, fragrant blossom of mandevilla

Tendrils gripping rosewood arch

You have crept into my heart

It will never be the same.

Solamente llenas mi alma de alegría

(Only you fill my soul with joy)

              

                                             -Ken Harmon