The Red Mask

Tears flow into the river
Covered by the red mask
Ancient hills have found you
Searching for the sun
Your body a symbol of youth
Soft flesh upon the earth
The flower is in bloom
With all of the beauty
And organic wisdom we can bear
Bring out the younger expression
Fair to gaze upon this day
Love as a failed masterpiece
Unable to endure the vagarious
Nature of time
Smiling in the presence of space and time
I feel you near and embrace your warmth
A tragedy acted out at midnight
Of wanting a fleeting desire
Standing steady upon the rocks of hope
Forever enduring a mild apocalypse
Strategy of seduction coming into play
Annihilating words of love as segue
To a nonexistent rhapsody
The way you stare at me
With abundance beyond compromise
Take you by the hand make it reality
Swim in the lake of peace
Drowning in your vision
Saved by your grace