Dedication to Silvia
The Subject of My Works of Love
For all this whole long process
Silvia was always there
As these poems I readdress
I can see her everywhere
As muse and inspiration
Motivating as first reader
I could then fulfill my intentions
Because her love has made them clear
Kierkegaard wrote in some abstraction
Yet his Works of Love contain reality
With Silvia such love's a personification
Which made true my poetic totality
She and I make this love quite tangible
The middle term gives us God's blessing
Manifest in the sensual and the spiritual
Through our love all of life reassessing
Through all this year or more
There she has always been
As the Works of Love we explored
Each poem is our love's hymn
To Silvia each poem came
Between each line a presence
Here I now pronounce her name
She is part of all in essence
We can take this as my dedication
To the miracle she brings to living
Written in my most profound affection
And in gratitude for all her giving