through long years of emptiness and pain

sensing your absence...

knowing that somewhere

you were waiting

My captive heart ached

seeking you

in sunlight and shadow

as I wandered the dim dusty corridors of time

Hungering, longing for the one soul

that made my heart sing

Happiness always just beyond the next turning in the road

As lifes dance

carried me along its byzantine ways

Til one day..

I found you my laddie

and knew

that I had found home.

I have loved you all my days...

You laddie..

Who have taken captive

this yearning heart.

Each heartbeat an affirmation

of the bond that unites us in love.

I will love you all my days

through anger and pain...

through lifes myriad treacheries,

will my soul reside within you

And at days end...

when deaths soft shadow comes a calling, my laddie,

my soul will fly free

unchained

to your loving arms