Mariposa Poem by Jim French

Mariposa
How you live
in my mind,
My soul'
My breath

When your eyes flash,
When time is our own,
I glance at the girl, who was,
Whilst seeing the woman who will be
And
Oh, how I love the woman who is now.

Even as you are with me,
I grieve for my time lost,
With the girl I never knew,
For the young woman'
Of the stories and photographs,
In the time before me.

If I were to dwell,
In the time before I
I would miss you,
In the time that is our now,
and I have missed too much already,
To pay the price to dwell again.

Mariposa
How you are
within,
My soul'
My breath,
within the time that is our now,
and in the time of our future.

Te quiero Mariposa, te quiero.