Poetry excerpt from the comedy/romance - 'Island of Life', by Stephen.

I ponder my hand in yours, if only for a moment and the moment is fleeting. My feelings for you are deep; my love for you as abounding as life itself. I desire you, and want for your eternal, angelic touch; for with you I feel the enlightening gift of God. Just as the oceans waves yearn to bathe the beach with their unending constancy of caress, I will adorn you with affection, until you sparkle as brightly as Christmas tree icicles against the evenings fireplace firelight. My mind will stay eternally open and know only wisdom and laughter for you; my fingertips will covet only the tender touch of yours....forevermore. I want to learn your life, with patient understanding, while comforting you with the tenderness of my mine. Pray given the chance, I will show you the true man within me, and his yearning to share through complete giving; for you have opened to page one my happiness in life, and thus brought forth this hearts hidden poem that has awaited your coming patiently. Let me unlock your heart with the key of friendship, so that I may fill it with kindness and come to enjoy you fully; with you also coming to know and enjoy the fulfillment of time with me. Forever drawn with these heartfelt feelings of love for you, my heart will always find its way home to yours; for just as sure and steadily as the great river finds its undaunted way to the wanting and awaiting sea, my need for you shall never waver, nor change its course of destiny to the whispering of your bosom. Let me know loves giving, and gift my ever lonely life with the full bounty of your blessed company. Welcome me I pray, as the firmament of heaven welcomes the rains cooling kiss, and rejoices in its homecoming with joyous feelings of fervor. Let us want life's joining; even as much as the oceans yearn for the suns rising, and forever flow toward its sublime splendor with blending waves of wanton. Strengthen my soul with your faith in loves grandeur, and believe in its blessed gifting; for truly, it is the resurrection of happiness awaiting to rise within our hearts. Forever shall my tongue vow to you with truthful telling, and taste only of the wine that you, and you alone have left upon these lips. As endless as our world turns, so will I labor to comfort you in body, delight you in mind, and forever light your heart with the essential happiness of peace; so that you may know the honesty of my ambition, and come to realize the eternally, earnest devotion of my pledging. May we explore loves deepest miracles and discover its greatest joys, until the stars twinkle their last goodnight for us, and ever so quietly, sparkle our hearts to sleep. Should there ever come an empty hearts morn, when we have explored each the other fully and find that love stirs no more within us, we shall not fear our ending, nor simply fade from passions past, nay; we will renew our heartfelt missing bliss with lips that touch for tender kiss, and then simply........begin love again