Feelings

• Sometimes it’s good to pause and write
• Of feelings that wake you in the night
• And make you feel so all alone,
• Seeking arms you’ll never own.
• Not yours to own, but only borrow-
• You’ll need to find new arms tomorrow.

• Feelings that wake you in the night
• Will take you to places of sheer delight.
• They bid you rest awhile and stay.
• And gratefully, you will obey.

Fires

• The look in your eyes said desire.
• I confused it, for a moment, with love.
• When kindling flames,
• It’s hard to distinguish
• Until it’s extinguished.

• Side by side,
• Desire diminished,
• I saw the dying embers of lust
• Fade into the darkness of sleep.
• No coals to keep,
• To re-ignite.
• When morning mist drenches
• The passions of night.

Terror

• The dream came and terror tore
• The strands of dreamless sleep.
• I woke in fear-
• Could sleep no more,
• Afraid of falling,
• Plunging deep
• Into the dark and alien abyss.
• And just as if,
• Knowing this,
• Your arms reached out with warm embrace
• Securing me in sheltered space.
• ‘Twas then I knew that I would stay
• Until the time you turn away.

• Then once again, so suddenly
• The haunting panic crept through me
• As all at once I did recall
• The fear that came before the fall.
• Fearing, at the break of day
• You would send me far away
• From arms that hold me in the night.
• In abject fear I hang on tight!
• For now, I’m safe from clenching fear.
• For now, my love, you hold me near.

• I am not the love of your life.
• And neither are you, mine.
• Illusion is an outcast we both leave far behind.
• Now we dare embrace the reality we find.
• Holding you close is, for me, just enough
• Because you are the life of my love.

• I don’t see stars when your lips meet mine.
• When we kiss I don’t taste the sweetness of wine.
• There are no fireworks when our bodies entwine.
• Holding you close is, for me, just enough
• Because you are the life of my love.

• Your vision has opened a new world to me.
• You’ve unlocked a door and allowed me to see
• The stars in the heavens where God meant them to be.
• Holding you close is, for me, just enough
• Because you are the life of my love.

• I taste the passion in you whenever we kiss
• A taste full of desire that I can’t resist.
• And no other taste could be better than this.
• Holding you close is, for me, just enough
• Because you are the life of my love.

• I feel your power as our bodies entwine
• And the strength of your touch when your hand is in mine.
• Sheltered and safe is the feeling I find.
• Holding you close is, for me, just enough
• Because you are the life of my love.

• Until the day I heard your call,
• An unborn lived within these walls
• Of blood and flesh and bone.
• My self responded eagerly
• To tools that were right for me.
• Tools you hold within your hands
• That knock down walls
• And put in doors
• To thresholds I’ve not crossed before.
• Vistas once hidden from my eyes,
• A panorama realized.
• My soul is free to soar again.
• My fear was just a growing pain

• The intruder broke security
• The stillness in dead of night
• The honking cacaphony
• Alerted geese in Southern flight
• Who looked below with watchful eye
• But seeing no brethren in distress
• Added to the melody
• With raucous noisiness
• We woke and peered through window shades
• Leery of seeing the aftermath
• And there on the top of our honking car
• Sat our very own cat who was taking a bath.