Your Unrelenting Song

Your Unrelenting Song
by Julien Kareem Stricher

You are the last ray
Of the moon’s
Unrelenting song.

A vanquishing melody,
That overtakes my fortress
Before dawn.

Your sighs
The sailboats
Enlivening breeze,

That traverses
My arid ocean
Marrying the salt
Of our sweat
To the sea.

It was this moist earth
That brought you to me.

It was the song
Of hummingbirds
And a seed.

That I still carry
Within me
Our nocturnal garden,
Where roses bleed.