Just Once

Let me make a song of every breath

Weave a little light into my soul

Braid happiness into the whims of my hair

Allow myself a smile

The one that I thought I could never afford

Search for a pair of warm hands

To bless my coldness away

Make a coat of ivory clouds

To wear on my way to the heavens

Let me dance to the harps of a cherub

Or to the flute of Gokul's prince

Let the rains kiss my forehead

And whisper little sonnets

Laugh with me till we can love no more

And wash my tears away

Tell no one

It would be our secret to keep

Let me wash the mirrors

and learn to look in them again

To know that I and she that I look at 

were never the strangers we thought 

each other to be

Let her eyes say just once

You're beautiful

and let mine smile and accept it.

Just once.