…only one heartbeat

I am a wild rose
blossoming in futility
you are the errant breeze
laced with every emotion of desire

just touch me once, a velvet kiss
and open up the gates of heaven
with your breath, my petals are freed
offering themselves to the waiting breeze

tearing through the vast avian vault
somewhere they are there
floating forever in the wind
in the boundless limits of the sky

from shore to shore
drifting softly and slowly
they fall down upon you
gentle caresses laid to rest
with the softness of remembered touch

rippling like waves
that flow through you like a gentle river
the four winds will take us where they will
but there is always only one heartbeat
and always only one eternity
© Ann Bagnall
2016