Wanda's Song

A part of you in me lies in shadow.

Sunlight through thin cotton curtains

cast patterns on your body and the sheet.

When I turned from the window,

my eyes found yours in the darkened room.

Another part lives in light;

leaving the trees on the hillside,

we lay in the grass.

I touched your face and found it

warm with the sun.

A part of you in me is silent like the snow

that stilled the night it gave to us.

And I saw both worlds bright with moonlight.

Walking through woods green with the spring,

I heard the wind in the trees

and watched them sway.

You took off your scarf

and let the wind have your hair.

As bits of glass and colored stone,

set to pattern on some wall,

catch sudden fire when sunlight streams

through a window,

these memories came to me--

parts of you and me in the love

that makes us one.