As No Other

By: Gus Victoria

There you are

‘Neath a sky so clear

With sun so dear

That to you is given

The beauty of angels

To tempt the unworthy man,

You are the jewel of an iron crown

Bestowed upon the peasant heart

Of a humble sort

Unknown in the halls of power

But for his dreams

That hope does shower,

He is to be great

If trust is given to fate,

You give him release

From failure’s sting

In the guise of a false spring,

And the fool he plays

For he knows not the praise

In your soul you sing

For his toil

Separate from the sacred soil

Of love’s grove,

He is yours as you are his

And yet neither owns

The heart freely given

The soul shared

The flesh bared,

Together as one

The genesis of timeless hope

To find in one

The other.

To know in one

The other.

Two as one,

One as neither.