TheSunsetScribes

I feel you with me like a ghost But not as an image from my past More like a vision of the future You with your arms around me Haunting me like a dream I have never experienced your touch Yet I can feel your hands upon me And I can see you by my side We may not really be together But you are with me always Ever present in my mind And so I see your form manifest Everywhere I look, everywhere I go You come along with me Even when you are elsewhere Unaware of my visions of you I can feel you with me But can you feel me in return Or does my touch pass through you Like a lost apparition

I can tell you what fear is It is being alone with you Being vulnerable with you Letting you see me for what I am Taking everything off And feeling fully exposed Understanding how beautiful and precious you are And having the power to break it if careless All men love in fear That is why they need loved in return

I'm not going to pretend I love you more than poets of old And use the finest of words To describe the vastness of my love How I would climb immeasurable heights Conquering great feats for your affection No, to this I cannot attest But this I can promise you That I love you more Than I knew myself capable And I think more of you Than I do of myself Which is much more difficult Than any physical obstacle That others may have conquered To prove their affection I may not be the best lover But you inspire me to be better

I wanted to bring you sunshine But instead I brought you clouds I made my intentions clear Yet still I live in shrouds I try to keep my trust But so often make mistakes And like the falling of glass So easily it breaks I try to care for you And sometimes I succeed But too often I worry About the things I need It should come as no surprise Why I feel this separation When I dream of us together And I stay in isolation So I’m sorry for my darkness And the times I seem to run Because I only brought you clouds When I wanted to bring the sun

When in season blossoms bloom And flowers produce fruit to bear Thoughts of love and passion loom And I can do no more than stare Loveliest of lovely flowers Be now nestled by my side I have picked you from the bowers Your new petals do not hide Let me in your landscape be And one with nature I will bind Open wanting eyes to see So I your hidden secrets find Seasons come and seasons go But flower that I hold most dear How I love to watch you grow No matter when the time of year

I expect the ice to melt, but not in a day So little by little, I warm it away And what I cannot thaw, to time I will let To clear a fertile space for growth to be set When it is ready, I will till the ground And bury a seed inside of the mound Deep in the heart I will plant the seed My love is what I will give it to feed With patience and care, I will work and toil Sowing seeds of love, even in the hardest soil

In the midst of a lover's wake His words become his soul to take But when the words come out in whole They no longer come through the soul And so the words are held aloft Spoken gently, spoken soft No more kept in captivity And irrigated through poetry Silent secrets masked and veiled That rhymes and prose had once entailed Are gone forever from the heart The storehouse of a poet's art Therefore, released by mouth and tongue What once was poetry has now made song A tune of visible attraction For now his poetry is his action

Black waves washing ashore Flowing, pulsating, in and out In and out Like breath Breathe it in Breathe it out Listen! It whispers Soft, low chatter "Come," it says to me It breathes my name In and out "Come" Its arms reach for me Closer, closer Beckoning, reaching Breathing, "Come" Cold breath Reaching in and out Pulling me closer Into the deep, dark pulse Until I'm over my head "Come" Breathe it in Breathe it out Hear the whispers Come

It normally starts in my chest As if the warmth I feel from you Is connected to my heart and lungs I feel my pulse quicken And I find it hard to breathe Then it spreads to my mind And I can no longer think straight My eyes can only see you It's like a sudden intoxication The heat spreads through my body I can feel my tongue relaxed All the words I once feared stating Suddenly feel easy to release The numbness, the dizziness I'm so in love with you I don't even understand Ever so slowly, piece by piece I feel myself falling apart Whenever I am with you I slowly melt away

I prefer this not to be vague Not with you, I don't I've come way too far From your mind to your heart From your face to your favor It is one thing to love Quite another to wait To fall deeper into a sense To be tested by time To be tried by animosity And secured with a smile Real love is not a fall More of a slow tumble Like your hair down your shoulder Like my words when you're near Words of a new expression Translated through my eyes Where my hidden thoughts lie Time has carried my emotions Further from their seclusion I wear them on my sleeve And you hold me in your palm Soft, tender hands With the power to crush And the power to caress H