The Largest Composition

     The Largest Composition

All will be lyricism when you tell

Me of your love.  A rich sonority

Will sing its way through words, and chords will swell

In rhythms and in rhymes.  Authority

Will dwell forever in the patterns of

Those highest forms of art combined with wealth

Of certainty, a hand inside the glove

Of loyalty, the fist of lover’s health.

This luxury is colored like the flesh

Of gods who live outside of wavering time.

This opulence is ever strong and fresh

In hope but then held real, then made sublime.

  Your promise of your love will make truth true,

     A marriage in which beauty will be you.