Relics

RELICS

I keep a ring and a cross
close to my heart.

One, around the ring finger,
binds a charm-kissed and blessed;
through veins it rushes and melts at the core;
an emotion,golden in colour,
worn upon the heart
penetrating the skin's cold embrace
cuddling within a new warmth..

the other rests peacefully
hanging down from a string with two ends-
mortality and eternity
meeting to make a deal..

It takes each throb of life-
the misery, misgivings,surprise and savagery-
for never can blood deceive its spring;
unlike water,it is too thick to be abstained..

A souvenir of love,
A ring reshaped as a cross
which gives blood to a memory,
breath to a life
and brings a long lost brother back to my security.

dt:20.9.2006