I am, your faithful Lovivore

Blooms from Topkapı Palace Museum June 2016

Over the years life has visibly had its toll on me

My body bears battle scars and visible signs of wear and tear

My mind murky with memories of old hurts and let downs

I see new wrinkles, curves, aches and dimpled parts each day

I sometimes still feel the pain of old wounds and anguish

Like a battleground time absorbs some of the desolation of my banal existence

But then YOU...

You happened in my life

Awakening long forgotten passions

Created new heights of delight and feeling I never imagined

This radical love you give me so unmeasured, unconditional and in bounty

Heals and strokes me so tenderly each day.

It restores my body smoothing over my rough edges

My scabs and less nimble parts of me transformed

I now radiate from the inside out, besotted in your endearments

You reshaped and remolded my weary self

Into an attested lovevivore!

Existing only in the sustenance that is your devotion

I remain forever yours

And in endless gratitude to favourable fates, that brought us together