A BREATH

A breath ever so slight is all that separates 

Bathed wonder captured in filtered light 

Like the first sight of a rainbow, with 

Colour entwined within a romantic poem 

The rush of discovery and the pause of awe 

Electricity tickling the beaded borders 

Hair raising goose flesh of gladiators 

In an unfamiliar arena bound by no rules 

With no spectators that respect the code 

No onlookers to comment on the spectacle 

Or decide the outcome before the start 

A breath and no more. It starts unshared 

And proximity designs a windburned confluence 

As life meets the living over the strains of a dirge 

Infusing new meaning into the melted merge 

Swaying as one, in a concert of twin violins 

Plucked with fingers drumming a staccato 

To a song stuck in time, stranded in history 

Sharing a sentiment lost but not forgotten 

Resurrected by the exuberance of abandon 

As secrets spun in the artificial chill 

Spill over the ballad in the curtained dark 

A breath that meanders purposefully and ignites 

Passion buried within layers of armour 

Tendrils that unfurl like the fronds of a fern 

Deliciously tickling the borders of inspiration 

Unraveling slowly, the puzzling strictures bestowed 

By the universal maze of morality 

It escapes and entwines with its mirror image 

Playfully conversing with bare mysteries lying therein 

Lying concealed, awaiting seductive release 

Confidence rising in each unplanned footprint 

A breath nonetheless that serves stimulus 

Dished on a silver ladle of unbridled impetus 

In quantity immeasurable for in its slightest 

It melts barriers and dissolves conflict 

In its tiniest it holds a whirlwind of wild 

Within a cup that wilfully runs over 

Its diminutive movement whipping up a storm 

That rages against widening cracks in the bark 

Unable to contain any further, 

the turbulence, the chaos, 

And all it takes for liberation 

All it takes for dissolution

All it takes,

is that one small breath