Here as we timeless lay

here as we timeless lay presume that all is timeless
that each new life is but an instant’s way
and this ungotten child we have prefigured in a dream
already bears the guilt of humankind

yes, in the birth of each new drop of life
await the seeds of all that is unfading

you’ll see as I see now that you have been
a wife to me as you were the wife of Abraham
and that our child awaited in the rose
that some forgotten eyes saw rise and fall amid the snow