Franziska's Song: The Return

Your skin is copper and your heart is gold
Your soul is priceless so that it is free
To belong to God and not be for sale
As you shine and share it sumptuously

Your eyes are like a tiger's and as bold
I feel them as they penetrate and see
Like probing unknown tongues of primal flame
To burn me back to where I want to be

The young learn from yet also teach the old
When love returns (if by another name)
And the most surprising thing I have learned
Is (with all my heart): I want you with me

A tiger looked at me and I got burned
As if I had been branded in the heart
Or was it your heart (since we feel the same)?
Let the fire fall free: let the magic start

A lion in winter now roaring once more
A circle completing below as above
An after which proves to be more than before
The return (if by another name) of love

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMVIII

thank you with all my heart, you have shown me so much kindness through out the years, you always lended an ear, shared a shoulder, witnessed my tears.

You are so gifted and brilliant, I have learned so much from you and I know I still will, my friend, my "apprentice shepherd", my family, shine with truth, come to the light, I can only love you with all my life