Semper Amor

Semper Amor By: Tejas Ranade

2008 It was that day, when days go by like sand That I knew what I had clearly understood and Let away from my fortress, as I saw you the first time After seeing you the millionth time. And I was awed By the magnitude of your love that never ceases, Not for the rain or storms, but only of its infinities That stretches across the chasm, a bride leading to golden gates And taking me by the hand through my ever-shaking slate.

O what love is that which you possess, that goddess of light Who illuminates the darkest of those dark nights so bright And unrepentant, you fly like the greatest doves toward me, Sending me toward the path of amber that I could not see Until I had known your harmonious love upon my very being That no artist can accurately paint, no choir can too sweetly sing.

This day hallowed beings in heaven shall call out in cloven mirth Because of you, your patience and virtue without dearth. And today is more sacred to me than the morning dawn For truly, your perpetual love I have first known.