If Love Has Touched Your Heart Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is this moment of my fingers
lovingly connected to each other
forming my hands
and clasping
in thanksgiving

there they lay as one family
beside the kingdom of my heart

so touched by love
as the greatest song with piano key still playing our song
of trust

ecstasy still bursting beside my chest
the world changes from orange to purple to pink
from pastel to something brighter than red

flames of love still burning
self unconsumed at the center of this global fire