Poem: "Perhaps this could have stayed unstated"

[Tom]

Hi

I have been wrestling with the following poem for days. Could you please help me understand it? Who is the poet talking to, what is the subject etc?

Perhaps this could have stayed unstated.
Had our words turned to other things
In the grey park, the rain abated,
Life would have quickened other strings.
I list your gifts in this creation:
Pen, paper, ink and inspiration,
Peace to the heart with touch or word,
Ease to the soul with note and chord.
How did that walk, those winter hours,
Occasion this? No lightning came;
Nor did I sense, when touched by flame,
Our story lit with borrowed powers -
Rather, by what our spirits burned,
Embered in words, to us returned.

Many thanks for helping me

Tom

[Tom]

:roll: :roll:

Tom

[Mister_Micawber]

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Its main purpose is to keep the sonnet form and present the acrostic of Balzac’s names-- whom I would presume he is talking to. He seems to be talking about the literary gifts of both authors.
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