I Know You Are A Gift From God

Diana with Daniel, 1974.

For Diana.

I know you are a gift from God

And you were wondrous fair:

Your lovely eyes,

Your tender lips,

Your silken cascade of coal black hair.

To your soft touch the waves lap close

Then tumble over my head:

In ecstatic joy

And deep embrace

You take me to your bed.

My greatest joy is beyond compare,

The cord which does most bind:

The relentless chime

Of tangled time

Ties me in unity to your mind.

So years have passed and lips do fade

But love has wondrously grown:

More dear to me,

Still marvellously,

My gift from God alone.