Benicia Love Poem: "A Love"

"A Love" by Mary Lou Haugh

A love so deep,
so good, so full
of beginnings, so
possible,  yet so 
impossible too.
Yes, there is
such a love.
You have proven
this to me.
But somehow
you are 
more than love
itself.  You are a 
mystery, the sweetest 
mystery I have ever 
known.  Without you,
joy could not touch
my heart with such
a luminous  sensitivity. 
Just the thought 
of you fills me
with an unknown
wonder, like glittering,
golden stardust in 
the silence 
of dark nights.
You bring joy
like a ripened, tender,
purple plum,
the most delicious
one that grows 
on an ancient
phantom love tree, 
whose roots
travel endlessly.
Your love is 
like a hunger
that swallows
me then spits
me out again,
remaking me with
a deeper, more 
expansive sense 
of time,  infusing me
with a magic 'knowing'
as huge as the
sky that shelters
earth now that  
you are part
of me.