Beyond the Threshold

In my sun-drenched noon, a thousand excuses bloom,
While your blues paint every reluctance in the room!

There could be endless signals, countless signs between,
But here I am, trembling before your very being!

Still I rush to be your Romeo in desperate haste,
While you're forbidden by the world to be Juliet embraced!

This failed face, coal-burnt and hard as stone,
You never grasped a single ache I've known!

People call it madness! Love? No, never that!
Some whimsical guitar's tune?... No no, not even that!

In some drowsy-dawn sunlight of a morning new,
Your veranda's flower garden blooming next to you!

Suddenly my strange heart surged wild and high,
You cast a sidelong glance and slipped away with a sigh!

Your entirety is woven through with love's sweet thread,
Mine's a mad and poisonous craving that won't be shed!

Even if you're drunk sometime, this much will remain—
You'll never let me go, not in this whole life's refrain!