A Mortal Passenger Close to Immortality

A Mortal Passenger Close to Immortality

I move now like a ghost who carries you

Inside me.  Others cannot see the real

Me.  Certainly they do not have a view

Of you within me.  Only slumps reveal

The weight I bear because of beauty in

My body, loveliness that you impose

There at my core.  We never knew the sin

I wanted, but it lingers always, grows,

And feeling it, a sacred tumor there,

I do not want the Christ to come and heal

It. Let the love expand.  Allow this pair

To carry on together.  Let me kneel

..Beneath internal weight that you impose.

….I glow because of you inside—and woes.