Eternal Moment...

Title: Portrait of a Lady, 1677
Artist: Nicholaes Maes


We are lovers and for the time
That one fleeting eternal moment we are
There is no overture conducted by the flesh
It is my eye which first notices
Your startling relevance
Unto each day
That I live
The new horizons
Of endless promise are
So limited by a spirit of being
Is it not the eye which relates best
to what is established within a heart
The sophistication warranted by philosophy
Creates a license to permit deception
If I could hold your heart
for one moment
What would you do with mine
for that moment