You showed me the secret,
the key to the mysterious Future,
deep in the shining Past, in the guise
of Aphrodite, slim, serene & beautiful,
you danced in the fragile flowers & golden
orchards of my memory, slowly, lovingly,
you fed me the fruit fit only for the gods,
the apples of Immortality & the sweet dark grapes
of poetic passion, you aroused me & enraptured me,
& embraced me beneath a moon that burned like
ecstatic silver fire, your body was the star strewn kiln
that melted reason into madness, until my heart's rivers
of rapture & desire burst across the tremors of your skin
& swept us away, irrevocably, eternally, into a land
of wondrous waters, of nebulae nimble on the peaks
of magic mountains, of minotaurs & savage satyrs,
& maidens whose ecstatic eyes you could drown in
forever, you were the Avatar awake within the Ages,
lover of heroes & those meant to be heroes, your love
was the great Love that all hearts could enter like a temple,
all could worship you, those who came in Beauty,
& those who came in Lust, all who touched you were
transformed, even those who loved you only
with their eyes finally forgot their fear & were transcended,
you kissed the hearts of mortals & gave them the taste
of galaxies, you danced within their darkness
& brought them bursting into Light...
--NorthPoet, from VISION RIDER...