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(”Maria, the most beautiful sound I ever heard”)

Maria….Your name is the glorious birth of a  heavenly song,

The only lyric in my music book  that I’ve sung  for so long;

On your birth, the angels half-entranced with the symphony

Joined the startled stars  in their  sparkling  glee.

Maria…your name, an unfinished prayer on lovers’ lips;

Your mouth,  twin blossoms from which honey drips;

Your love, an enclosed zone promising wild desire,

A sealed fountain, setting night in a noonday fire.

Maria…How many dreams have you ravished in the dead of night,

When desires awake while the terrified stars burn bright?

How many sighs has your scented breast induced

To languish with its perfume the love it seduced?

Maria… Enchantress of my long starry nights,

Forbidden garden of love and  celestial lights,

Open your gates to Dreamland , unseal  the fountain of desire

That in my delirium I may drink your nectar before I expire.

Maria… Let me sink in your perfumed bosom

To quiet the riot of a heart that needs a home;

Yours is the wilding of my  prayerful desire,

You alone can tame my mischievous  lyre:

My lyre  that knows only one aria,

My love, my life, my MARIA  ###