Why ache, my heart when love is come so quick? Why fever's pitch? Or are we both homesick? And yet, the fire's heat melts all this pain to shades Of rainbowed beauty flooding o'er the world, cascades Of my heart, pulsing with the long passage of time And all I hope is: I am yours, and you forever mine
Tag: love poem
All
It has been said that Cigarettes Are a way to hold Fire In a human's hand It has been said that Wine Is the source of Life I say that You And I Are yet the depth of Love And love Is Life Is Fire Is all of Faith Is Truth Is All Is All Is All
Only You
Only you Defied reality Defiled my mind Withstood my sea Came back to me Not only you Resisted reality Withheld your mind Shrank from my sea Came back to me Only you (And only they) Could claim my mind Shift what you say With meanings play Not only you (Nor only they) Left me, my mind And heard me say "Love is not a game I play," But only you Are only you I keep my mind My heart is true I still have room for "I love you"
Different Love
You may know so many things, be attuned to my mind... But do you know the depths of love? Why stop a feeling that is so kind? Why stop a lover's heart? Why end a love before its time When it has barely had time to start? What river's course would you dare tame When all of life survives therewith? So, why, when love behaves the same Would any heart leave and claim the Fifth? I love, and love, and love again And not but one has dared to claim My heart as deeply as he has, Though I and he've not come to pass... And, what on earth's a girl to do When I love others differently than I love you?
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Fire & Water
Fire at your fingertips Fire that leaps from your perfect lips Fire that heats all of what I am Fire that burns in your epigram At length, you and I are endlessly drawn You of the sun and I of the sea Slipping through sunsets and rising at dawn Flames crave to be quenched only by me Water drips from my eyes every night Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight Water connects me to all beings that are Water surrounds us, no matter how far Roil and boil in our yearning to grasp Groping to touch as hearts at distance clasp Fire and water barely meeting, and then Into the ether, we rise again Fire at your fingertips Fire that leaps from your perfect lips Fire that heats all of what I am Fire that burns in your epigram As soft as I am when I wash over you As hard as I come when my fury's released I fall every day as the morning dew Wash back again, back again, passion unceased Water drips from my eyes every night Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight Water connects all the beings that are Water surrounds us, no matter how far Can you claim what is mine with all your soul's heat? Can a sun claim an ocean and neither retreat? Can two beings so strong make a life that will last? Can two such hearts meet, make a love unsurpassed? Fire at your fingertips Fire that leaps from your perfect lips Fire that heats all of what I am Fire that burns in your epigram Heat me, embrace me with fires that burn I'll cool you with kisses, none sweeter than mine I hope and I wish and I want and I yearn Fire and water make a love genuine Water drips from my eyes every night Water cleanses each burning, every harm, every slight Water connects all the beings that are Water surrounds us, no matter how far
Clichés
Please don't tell me how great I am If you're just gonna walk away Frankly, I don't give a damn I'm here and now, let's live the day Don't let's wait another year Before we dare embrace again Falter to love and not to fear Spread wide your heart, let love begin Please don't waste another word In lieu of love, then run from me They're all the same; they've all been heard Don't tell us both I'm best left free When it's excitement in your ear And rambling thoughts that sound like fear In the stillness of your heart's rush Is still the shadow of joyful blush You found a soul with a widespread heart Embarked with a mind whose life is art So, come back, now, into widespread arms Let me thrill you with feminine charms Don't tell me, please, how great I am If you're going to walk away Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn Carpe diem, love; sieze me today
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Haunted
It's never "I don't love you" And it's never "I don't care" It's always "I crave you" "I need you" "I want you" Forever "Please, baby" "C'mon, baby" "Why not, baby?" I'd do so much more for me and you I've done so much for me and you I'm just asking that you do This one thing for us, too And it's hard, But I will dare And it's hard, Much more than "maybe" But, step out of comfort, baby We'll have much more than "maybe" Love's far deeper than just caring And those close to me are daring I'm just asking that you do This next thing for me and you I can't keep pulling you along Can't keep up this lonely song But if you force this solitaire Please release me from this snare And I'll step out of comfort, baby We'll have so much less than "maybe" Love's so much more than wanting So much more than two souls' haunting
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Silhouettes of You
Waving just beyond the window Swaying just beyond the blinds I sense your sensual energy flow And I can't, for all of me, reach you And I can't forgive myself For I can't and I won't make do I won't put life on a shelf Waving just beyond the window Swaying just beyond the blinds I can't bring myself to go And tomorrow won't be different And tomorrow won't ever do For tomorrow, you won't think to repent And I'll still be missing you Waving just beyond the window Swaying just beyond the blinds I can't reach you; I can't know If your voice, my heart will cling to If my voice will sing to yours All I want is to be near you All I want is mine and ours Waving just beyond the window Swaying just beyond the blinds Still, we flow, we love, we grow
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Prisms of Love
Don’t you know? I long to feel the skin upon your face, The brush of whiskers nettled on your chin And when I reach to touch, you to embrace I find that I am forced to reach within For - don’t you know? I tremble all the day and all night long My body eager, vibrating as you strum The heartstrings of such a familiar song Your fingers not yet on flesh; still, for you I thrum And I cannot foresee another way Than dancing deeply in a world unknown So I will live and love another day That one day, maybe soon, this depth be shown That, maybe one day soon, I will be yours And you’ll be mine, in body too; That one day soon, we’ll dance through doors In ethereal worlds we’ll live, both I and you So, don’t you know? My heart is bound to yours and lost to me It’s yet my mind you kiss, that you must woo And I, lost forever in this fantasy Somehow made real, this life, by your love true And - you must know! Forever, in this time That you are yours, and also I am thine; That I belong to me, and you are mine! That we are ours, forever-love sublime
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The Muse
“The trouble with a muse,”
(my dear friend said)
“is that one cannot control it.”
I am bound by the aches and pains, By the emptiness and the questions that remain In the absence and the silence of this reign Of my forever love affair with you I am bound to find the answers that may hide, To bear the passion and the weakness of our tide, The forever pull of being at your side In my forever love affair with you I wonder sometimes: If you loved me true, If your sad heart could calm its changing hue, If your mind's eye could see, at last, its due, If your dear soul could finally renew In your forever punishment of you Would we, at last, unlock the clues To a forever life of me-and-you? But, who am I to ask of you to shift When all we are has led us to this rift Where our hearts hold fast and souls can freely drift Amidst this waning love affair with you?
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You and Me
I would live to delight you,
To turn your every day to magic
As mine are turned by you
As mine are turned by me.
I would live to entice you,
To turn your every sensation into bliss
As mine are turned by you
As mine are turned by me.
I would live to be your love,
To turn your heart to molten gold
As mine is turned by you
As mine is turned by me.
I would live to be your girl,
To adorn your very side with glory
As mine is adorned by you
As I am adorned by me.
I would live to be your peace
To be the respite you choose
As I choose you
As I choose me.
I would live for nothing but love
And you would be the love I live
As you are you
As I am me.
I would live to be forever yours
To be your eternal everything
As I, already, in my heart, belong with you
As you, already, in my heart, belong with me.
Desert
I deserve to be kissed with temul,
To be loved with such a verve,
To be wanted, desired like none other,
To be pursued with the intent of a hungry wolf.
I deserve to be wanted by a man I want,
To fall in love endlessly,
To be powerfully lauded in silent awe
By a man I love as endlessly.
I deserve to be kissed, and woken up,
My every cell alight,
My every nerve trembling with joy
At forever possibility.
I deserve to rest vulnerably,
To be safe in a world of safety
To finalize my love infinitely
In a love of final infinity.
I deserve to be:
To be well in a magical way
To take for granted nothing
In a today-forever-now.
I deserve you…
For every one of you, I love
So powerfully,
So infinitely.
You Know, Don’t You…?
Don’t you know that my heart aches for you?
For the way you smile,
For the way you dress,
For the way you hold yourself in a chair,
So gallantly,
So arrogantly,
So nonchalantly?
Don’t you know that my eyes ache to see you?
To spy the drink you choose,
To watch you lift it to your lips,
To see you shift in your chair uncomfortably,
To watch you laugh mirthfully at yourself,
At me?
Don’t you know that my ears pine to hear you?
To find the timbre of your voice sink deep within my stomach,
To listen for all of the things you say that make no sense, and so much,
To hear your body speak so loudly in all of your small movements,
To wait for the silence of your breath as you hold me close to you?
Don’t you know how much I see in everything you do?
Don’t you know how very deeply I love everything in you?
I ache for your unkindness, even when it hurts.
I ache for your sweetness, spilling meaningless promises upon me.
I pine for your lips to come anywhere in my vicinity.
I ache for your breath, for your taste, for your fingers, for your skin…
I long for your responses, so immediate, so intense, so deep, to my every word and touch…
And yet, I would love nothing more than to watch you, forever, in your nativity…
To pine for you forever…
And find, one day, again, your thoughtful gaze upon me,
Knowing I was watching you.
When Connections Cease To Fade
Resist me, if you will:
Your fight reveals you,
Betrays your desire,
Demands my attention,
Commands my response.
Be silent, if you must:
Your vibration pulsates stronger,
Reaches farther,
Throbs within me,
Speaks more truth.
Remain away, while you can:
Your heart protects me,
Encourages all you love in me,
Strengthens what is weak in me,
Purifies what is best in me.
Release all of your negativity:
I will remain, in love, through time,
I will remain, in love, through peace,
I will remain, in love, through life,
I will remain, in love, with you.
And there is nothing anyone can do.
Unfamiliarity
Who are you
to walk into my life
to stare at me that way
with mesmerizing eyes
with an air of knowing
your body commanding me
your inaction owning me
then walk away from me?
Who are you
to walk back in my life
to stare at me that way
with mesmerizing eyes
with a smile of knowing
your body commanding me
your action owning me
then stroll away from me?
Who are you
to walk into my life
to smile at me that way
with knowing eyes
with embraces dear
your soul commanding me
your body owning me
then pull away from me?
Who are you
to walk into my life
to kiss me that way
with knowing lips
with such responsive skin
your heart commanding me
your hands owning me
then drive away from me?
Who are you
to walk with me in life
to talk to me that way
with knowing words
with embraces sweet
your music commanding me
your soul owning me
then slip away from me?
Who are you
to walk away from me
to then return to me
with my heart sore
with your mind worn
your words confusing me
your inaction demanding me
then ask all to be bound of me?
Who are you
to rule what no man rules
to own what no man owns
with casual intrigue
with remoteness invested
your heart calling to me
your will resisting me
then try to leave me be?
Shall I not cry?
Shall I not be?
Shall I erase all of me?
Shall I fall into misery?
Shall I deny this fate?
Shall I deny my heart?
Shall I become an empty shell
That you’ll not be alone,
Release the Phoenix within me
Release the One inside of you
Consumed by guilt
Consumed by pain
And find each other
In Eternity.
…Who are you…
…to me?
The Ineffectiveness of Transformation
And so,
I must transform my addiction,
Transfuse my heart’s beat
To give words life.
You will not take my love.
And so,
Your intent transforms your words,
Searing your mind’s will
Into my life.
I will not withhold my love.
And so,
Our ways transform each other,
Smiting our egos’ brazenness
Within reality.
We will not bend or break.
Can we return to that Fantasia:
To that world between worlds,
Where everything exists?
To that place of lingering embraces,
To that place of almost-perfect kisses,
To the moments nearly lost in time?
Can we return to Wabi-Sabi
To be
Just you and me?
I still give you everything you ask,
Everything your heart desires
Comes so naturally.
I am still yours…
And in my heart,
You are still mine.
Currents
I immerse myself in your ways
And I find myself swimming in my own depths
Returned to fresh waters I knew only in theory
Returned to dammed waters I knew were true
Awash in your ways
I find myself in tears unshed for years
I find myself renewed
I find myself alone, and, somehow, with you
All theories take on new life
Resonating, sounding new depths
Revitalizing, seeding sleeping places
And I somehow cease to fear
Is it true, you are my soul-twin?
Is it true, you are the one
To walk me into death, then back again
We walk, skip, run into the light?
In you, there is no memory.
In you, there only is.
In you, there lives all possibility.
In you, the pulsing flow of life.
I have no control
These oceans in me belong to you
Salt them with your wisdom
Cleanse them with your spirit
For I am yours
This free spirit that moves with the world
Is, now and forever
Given over to you
…And if, in all your wisdom and grace
You give us both unto the world
So much the better for us both
For I will always be part of you
Pride and Humility
He always was everything
And yet, is Nothing.
You would be nothing
And yet, are Everything.
And in my loving both of you,
Love all that Is.
Is it blasphemy to think such words?
Are they not True – as True as any ever were,
Ever thought,
Ever felt,
Ever conceived?
Your humility and his
Would bind you both
While I, in gall and innocence,
Take flight on Daedalus’ wings,
My beauty protected by the gods,
My sweetness keeping my humble heart
And prideful mind
To love,
To still love;
And, when wax wings melt
With certain heat of that great orb,
I fall,
Yet, tempting Helios’ gaze,
Am saved
To tour the world in golden chariot,
To speak of truths that he and I do see,
To, jealously resigned and happy still,
Have him return me safely back to thee,
And he.
What know you, both, of such adventures?
And, should I tell, would you believe them true
Or mere fancy of a mindful girl
With too much fancy in her mind,
Mirth within her heart,
And honey on her tongue?
I dream,
And in this dream of Life, know little that is true
‘Til Truth be spoke into my heart, and my heart hears,
And am forever bound to it
As I am bound, forever,
To him
And you.
Do Not Lie; I Love You
Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When your body speaks volumes
With the heat of desire
With the sweetness of kisses
With the tenderness of touch
With your need for me
Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When your mind reels
Over past events
Over past relations
Over past failures
Over the intense truth of you-and-me
Do not lie to you
About your intentions
About what you want
When you cannot lie
Despite all your lies
Despite all your claims
Despite all your resistance
Despite my naïve trust in you
Do not lie to me
About your intentions
About what you want
When I, in vulnerability, state deep truths
Give, thoroughly, everything you ask
Give, honestly, everything I want
Give, eventually, all that I am
Give, helplessly, it all to you
Do not lie to me
About your intentions
About what you want
When I can see through
To all your truths
To all your complexities
To all your fears
To all your love
Do not lie to me
When I cherish you
And I am wise enough to understand why you lie
And smart enough to learn what you’re saying
And bold enough to stand behind the truths I find
And in love enough to share their treasures with you
Do not lie to you
Do not lie to me
When it changes nothing of the truth
And nothing of you
And nothing of me
Do not lie
(I love you)
The Beasts Released
Would That I could make love with the chained part of you Who knows me intimately, Worships my intensity, Reigns in eagerness to torture me Would That I could kiss the merciless you Who feels no guilt, relishes extremes Whose anger feeds your vengeance From deep and hidden streams Would That you would punish me with pleasure, Hear me scream with raw delight Bind me with lasciviousness As is your exclusive right Become the final shattering Of our minds, aware, at once, Of our true natures' spattering The crushing gravity of our hearts' Union, destroy and heal As the terrible gentleness imparts Of Time made Timeless Would That you would seal your gaze within my eyes, Wander off to guard me in our world, My beautiful one, to be forever tied And free within unbound nativity
Oceans of Mine 