RFD - Radical Faerie Digest — a queer reader-written journal since 1974

Ode to Rosie D. by Wow, spring 2000

Bright shining moonbeams for your eyes my dear
Soft mists of the forest for your gown
Float lightly through the darkening woods
Till sleep beckons
And gently draws you down
Sleep the deepest sleep
With love
Wrapped in your arms
Your arms
So strong and powerful
So delicately entwined
Embrace your chest which rises slowly and more slowly falls
Each breath a brief rememberance of love the heart recalls.
Dream the dreams of lovers
More ancient than the stones
And know this love so deeply you hold it in your bones
Sleep till dawn does gently awaken you
And from your eyes the moonbeams fly
Replaced by light more brilliant
Than the star that chases darkness from the sky.
Your vision
Clear
And marvelous
Your being
Still and bright
You rise and sing and dance
Sprout wings
Uplifted you take flight
And soar above the world
Ablaze
A comet of luminous light

Love showers from your heart
To rid the world of fear
While teardrops from your eyes
Cleanse lovers
Distant
And so dear
Whose faces dropped
Now turn aloft
Look up and celebrate
Sweet showers of truth
That nourish souls
Who crave the peace and joyousness
That loving surely knows
Timeless waters of the Cosmic Well
Healing all they touch
The past the present the future
All One
As over All
They flow
And cleanse
And burnish smooth
Rough edges once so harsh
Till tumbling on and rolling on
Each drop
Lands softly in a pool
So deep, so clear
So charged with life
They gasp for breath
And finding it
Expel all pain and fear

Bright shining moonbeams for your eyes
Soft mists of the forest for your gown
Float lightly throught the darkening woods
As love surely circles around