Convictions and Persuasions

Convictions and persuasions, inducements and enticements,
the path and track, the route and trail,
pertain and relate, assume and concern.

You, the breathing ether,
the gasping melody of intimacy and imminence,
and the inhaling breeze of enlightenments, clarifications, and elucidations,
the salute and signal, the gesture and motion.

You, the delight of the crisscrosses, elation of the traverses,
and ecstasy of the sole moments, the lone ticks and flashes,
the trance and daze, reverences and venerations;

intimacy and imminence, elucidations and enlightenments,
elations and ecstasies, the feelings, touches and poses,
the manners, modes, and approaches,
the eminence to override, overwhelm, and engulf.

It is you, the purpose and drive, devotions and dedications,
the calmer and soother, to cease, obliterations and eradications,
mediator and serener, to terminate, extinctions and suppressions,
to enrich and augment, motivations and volitions.

It is you, the soul and the gospel, the heart and the essence,
the will and the sole, the subject, to merge and sustain,
relics and remainders, the remnants and fragments,
the entities and objects, to protract and extend.

It is you, the feelings, moods, and stances,
Intuitions, compassions, and concerns.

It is you, the Oceans’ waves, the drafts and breezes,
which are the entireties, to rejoice and always maintain,
protractions and extensions, continuations and sequels,
to portray and reveal, and to depict and expose.

It is you, the birds fly to reach, the fowls open the wings,
and me, to join hands, share shoulders, and stare and glare.

It is you and me, to pursue the rush, to crack the maze,
and to hint, trail, and track, the land of bliss and rapture,
while, the abandoned fawns and calves,
the broken wing sparrows and canaries, could shelter and heal.