Ritual


The beach is my Holy Land
and we lie together
our bodies intertwined
as are our souls, perhaps
within this sacred temple

Do you know that I would
take the silver from the tops
of the moonlit sea
and sculpt a wondrous idol
and I would pluck Castor and Pollux
from their distant homes
lighting the eyes of your likeness
with their brilliance.
As I sing to you, the words
are carried off in the wind
and lost in the crashing waves,
and your fingers touch
my lips
my eyes
my nose
my ears,
grazing over them and
pausing only slightly over each one,
as if to bless them.
And when you kiss me,
I have been baptized.

The sea spray obscures your vision,
You cannot see my lips form
their dying prayers to yours.
I want
to taste the wine that is
your mouth again,
to drink in that sweet delirium
I want
to take the bread that is
your flesh
my altar is
your body stretched beneath me
and your words are my ritual music.
I look through the windows of
your eyes
and run my fingers
through your ebony silk hair and
I know the nature of God.

The pearlescent moon is
your halo of humanity
but I see only the light of the divine.
The words you whisper in
my ear become my mantra, echoing
over
and over
as I
give myself to you
releasing the music
that has risen in a
ritual of love





© 1998 Adhara Law