~ Three Apples ~
by S. Anne Gardner
Three apples…..golden and sweet.
Three apples as a gift to the most beautiful of women.
Three apples to signify perfection, assignment to a vessel for adoration ….a statement for all mortals and gods to see…..three apples the symbol and the gift.
And you my love…..beauty and grace are your cape
And you my love……softness and tenderness your clothing and your sandals
And you my love……..love and passion ….your heart and soul.
To you my love I give this fruit of homage
To you my love I bestow this gift….for I my love am the giver of this ….
To you my most sweetest love I give more than the fruit but I humbly bestow my heart, my soul…..my body.
Three apples my love….golden and sweet
And you my love are the body and the essence of this….
To you my love I give what I have never given…..and what you have always been my love…..oh my love…my sweetest love
Because you my love….. are the fruit and the gift, while I my love like a mortal give homage to you….give me the apple to eat….from it the sweetness of its essence…you
You are the fruit
You are the essence
You are the blood
You are the body
You are the soul …..of my life my love.
I hunger… I thirst….
Beloved, give me the fruit to eat…..
Lick from my lips your gift to me as I take mine from yours.