Shielded Beneath Your Tapestry

Shielded Beneath Your Tapestry
by JJ Johnson


When you peer so deeply into my heart through your deep blue oceans
Through the waves of red that drift across your lovely haunting gaze
I feel your eyes peeking transparently through my ancient wary soul
I wonder if you're aware how my pulse rages to overflow your rivers
To flood your deepest valleys and rise above your mist-coated peaks
Ascending the rocky hills above sheer cliffs and slippery slopes
Can you see through me across the miles and mountains in between?
Would you create with your artistry the scenery that I can see in fantasy?
Weave me a graphic tapestry to protect the pages of my lonely poetry
Cover me in sketches that bring order to my forest of chaotic anarchy
Collect the scattered bones the past has littered across my barren fields
Bury my forgotten deeds and plant a growing crop of nature's fruitful seeds
Where we will till our verse in the fertile soil of our gifted reaping souls