Before
\nby cricketjeff on September 22, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nBefore you was there sunlight? Had the birds learned how to sing?
\nWere Autumn leaves as gold as early dawn?
\nBefore you were there dewdrops that brought jewels to everything?
\nIn the years before your life was beauty drawn?
\nIn your face I see the moonlight of ten thousand lonely nights
\nIn your eyes the sea rolls on for many miles
\nAnd your lips may form the curtain hiding all the finest sights
\nWhile the finest of them all may be your smiles<\/p>\n
When you walk my eyes start dancing to the music of your feet
\nTo the swaying of your hips and to your chest
\nIf you sit and look toward me then the picture is complete
\nI have painted out the face of all the rest
\nSo before you started growing how did painters find their art?
\nCould a poet find a muse before you spoke?
\nWhen a sculptor held his hammer who was massaging his heart?
\nWas there beauty in the World before you woke?<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI was sorely tempted to make the last two lines …<\/p>\n
Like a hammer deep inside me there’s the beating of my heart
\nWhen I heard her say “Stop that, you’re such a bloke!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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