ballads for my beloved
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ballads for my beloved ~
i met my now husband in November 2016 while traveling to Iran, the homeland of both my parents
we were long distance for nearly four years, with only me capable of traveling back and forth
poetry and lyric writing became a shared strategy to befriend uncertainty and make sense of love’s lunacy
mountain man
i’m lured into the sacred landscapes of your love
slipping within, i’m sipping in tastes from above
breath hovering in anticipation of action
mountain man, unwilling to control his attraction
we travel far, where the sun meets the moon
faithful horizon, assured we’ll be home soon
your courage craves adventure, i’ll be the horse you ride
we’ll journey beyond this world, and even deeper inside
pack prayers of persistence with you
and i assure our wildest dreams will come true
