When You Lower Down Your Shield

When you lower down your shield

And look back

You are like the lighthouse

That shows that land is near

You are like a waterfall of stars

Dropping down from heaven.

If it was not for your beauty

It was for your exctasy

I would rather be dead

Than miss a syllable.

You open up rivers

Of sacred harmony

And sound the bells

Of eternal joy.

Alfred Grech

31/08/2019