The Secret

 
Here, below unending night
Lay a verse like buds of roses
'pon silken bed of spirit glosses 
Nightly secret by two kept

Much my soul in life has wept
Much the pain that I've endured
Much the sorrow has ensued 
Doleful sighs on slumber set 
Yet the thing with you I've met
It's the secret, worth of pain. 

Here the secret I present
Be you witness to my heart
Need not ears for this to start
Need not skin for this to feel 

For the secret is untold 
And the secret is unseen 
In the flesh it is not felt 
Yet in soul its mark has left 

What's the secret, hear you ask
Secret, say I, can't be told 
For the secret is no word 
Secret is a secret feel. 

Feel my eye upon your eye
Feel my kiss upon your kiss
Feel your words that turn to bliss
Feel the love between us nigh

Nigh, so nigh
Close so much 'tween you and I 
And then see my iris straight, 
lock me right into your sight 
And the secret shall be there. 
For the secret is so secret 
Cause it's us. 

Us, and us, and only us. 

Low, like a whisper
But there, like a ghost
of something that has been
and will be.
Beyond the world, yet still in it, 
In the dark, when no one looks
When we are, there 'tween us two,
Forever, our thing. 
Our secret.