Love Poem

Your touch on my lips
Sends chills through me
A caress so warm
Takes me places I’ve only dreamed
Loving you is simple and complete
For your eyes say everything

Missing you cuts so deeply
Into my soul of vulnerability
I can’t stand being without you
Because your nearness brings such comfort
To a heart so shaken and dead
If but for a moment of tenderness

Your laughter and sigh
That momentary glance
If only you were willing
To take a chance
We would fly away
To parts unknown

I feel I’ve known you all my life
Yet, being without you
Cuts like a knife
A wound so magnificent
It spreads like a cancer
Of loneliness that only lovers understand

I know this journey won’t be easy
But traveling with you somehow
Eases the pain of separation
No regrets for two who share the same dream
Of being together if only for brief moments
Stolen away from time moving so quickly

You’ve invaded my essence
Without you, I’m nothing
If only I could bottle you up
And spread your gentleness
Throughout my being
I love you, sweetness, forever it seems