LOVE SONG FOR EMILY <br />(for Emily Dickinson) <br /> <br />You handed me <br />your eyes <br /> <br />so that I could see <br />as you saw. <br /> <br />I looking <br />in wonder <br /> <br />seeing you sew <br />the world together <br /> <br />in quick little stitches <br /> <br />a perfect embroidery <br />of knowing <br /> <br />drawing the thread through <br />& through <br /> <br />until nimble as a needle <br /> <br />I knew as you <br />knew. <br /> <br />Oh Emily <br />I was always <br /> <br />in love <br /> <br />with the beauty of your eyes <br /> <br />& how they saw <br />& said the world <br /> <br />the quick dashes <br />of your mind <br /> <br />like Braille <br />to my blindness <br /> <br />the Morse Code <br />of your thought <br /> <br />leading me through <br />the labyrinth of you <br /> <br />bound <br />in a nut <br />shell <br /> <br />until I arrived <br />at the beauty of your eyes <br /> <br />and you handed me <br />your seeing <br /> <br />and...I saw. <br /> <br /> <br />* * * <br /> <br />Our English teacher’s voice commanding us to open our books at Emily Dickinson. Doing as I was told...I glanced down shyly at her words looking bravely up at me and immediately at once I fell in love! <br /> <br />Our English teacher’s voice proclaiming “I don’t like teaching this woman…I don’t understand her! ” <br /> <br />Oh Emily, I knew you as you knew me and had already eloped with your mind leaving only the empty shell of a schoolboy for the teacher to shout at! Us laughing...running away together...running through the wild woods of words...gathering words and turning them into the daisy chain of poems.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-song-for-emily-for-emily-dickinson/
