Perfect Friend / Perfect Poem
Perfect Friend
by Valentine Pierce
Your beauty is as a summer day,
From the first glimmer of life upon the earth
To the peaceful twilight of a summer’s eve.
As I watch your half-turned body
Illuminated in the light of a distant street lamp,
I am awed by it’s intricate beauty.
What moved His mighty hand, I wonder,
When He molded you from damp clay into perfection.
Perhaps He considered His own magnificence in our eyes
And desired to give the less faithful
Something more tangible, more real
Than the mere image of His omnipotent grace,
Which sometimes fades from our hearts;
Perhaps He wanted to make the glory of heaven
More comprehensible to our feeble minds.
But such exquisiteness is still beyond us;
Such artistry is still beyond the hands of mortals.
For looking at you, it is as though God sculpted you
From the pearls and golds of His great paradise.
It seems He gathered in His palm,
All the splendors of this world,
Every fine feature of his winged angels,
And shaped them piece by piece –
Each gentle curve, each sinewy muscle.
He fashioned the furrows of your brow
With more tenderness than a mother’s touch;
And delicately carved the structure of your face
With a golden chisel.
As I reach out to touch you
To assure myself you are real, and
Not the fabrication of a dream,
I am amazed at the softness of your skin.
It is as though you were kissed
With the curls of a spring breeze
That tells of new life upon the land.
I want to trace your body with my hands,
Feeling every hollow and groove
As I try to absorb the beauty of it into my soul.
I would like to touch you forever.
Seeing you, I know it is with infinite wisdom
That you were made yet human
So that I may behold you in wonderment and be filled,
That I may know my place in this world has purpose
As I struggle to form you with words
As graciously as He did with His almighty hand.
Your beauty inspires me and I am reassured
That the fruit of His labor, mankind,
Is not in vain after all.
Posted with permission from her new book Geometry of the Heart, available for purchase and published by Portals Press.
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