After Lasting Darkness

Shone and glowed after lasting darkness
From you, my life, I saw its sun and moon

By broken tracks and teeming hordes
In the blazing sun of deserts, fierce their heat

You were the beginning and became the end
Quit the sweetness and bitterness of life before you

The hour of yearning passed between war and peace
Slayed me your eyes, oh how artful

Appeared your face to guide through deserts of love
A glance released from shackles my soul

So many conflicts, then resolution, after which...conflict
In the course of nights, its good and bad

From your features my eyes bear no fast
In the grace of beauty, how sweet to break fast

Who engaged always my thoughts, yet slept unfeeling of my needs
I wish through my eyes saw, who engaged them