Monday, April 2, 2018

Harbingers and Heralds


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harbingers and Heralds


There is a warning that comes before
   The moment when a smile lights up your face.
The touch, of a lover’s hand portending
   In that long breath ahead of an embrace,
An electric harbinger of sweetness coming,
   A neuro-chemical nudge in the tangled space,
Among the billion neurons where the mind,
   Whispers, roars, and rushes on apace;

In the dark behind the eyes, the soul knows,
   Whether by instinct, intuition or wild guesses
When something’s coming down the pike.
   Heart tightens as the mind presses
Strings of emotion, playing like a fiddle,
   In the deep places in the dark recesses
Where we gauge the imminently approaching
   Moment we expected as it softly coalesces.

Then there's that smile...

© 2018 by Tom King

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