POETRY: WITHOUT YOU, MY SOUL WOULD DIE

As I lie in bed,
The bed of my death,
I'll look through my things,
And one thing shall take my breath.

It won't be the degrees,
Or the diplomas I've earned,
It won't be my records,
Or a new thing I've learned.

It will be a picture
That doesn't say a thousand words.
"I love you, beautiful!"
Will be the only thing heard.

I'll see that beautiful smile,
Those deep beautiful eyes,
And that beautiful hair,
And know your equal, within heaven she lies.

A picture of you,
Could be the last thing I see,
Because every time I see you,
My heart beats faster within me.



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y love is a fire that burns bright for a while
and then, as an ember, grows cold.
The countless mem'ries, alone, are unchanged,
as with strident passion, rove bold.

As lovers are gifted, my gifts are full nil.
I wander a wearisome journey.
I hunt and I search, that my cup overfill -
that I may joust, yet, one other tourney.

Oh prithee fair damsel, abide yet a while!
My old list of mem'ries doth wane.
I bid thee to kindle the flame in bold style,
else my mem'ry be, once more, my bane



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Without you, where would I be?
Who could I run to when the world
is mad at me?
Without you, I would be lost.
My dreams and hopes of life with you
would drift away.
Without you, I wonder
how my life would be.
More than likely I would move on,
like before I ever met Thee.
Without you, I feel hopeless,
my life would fall apart.
My every dream would crumble,
due to a broken heart.
Without you in my life,
I cannot feel your touch;
the smile of yours, it warms me;
your eyes, they cared so much.
Without you, my soul would die,
you'd take the life you gave me inside.
Do not take your love from me,
because without you,
there'd be no me.



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Why am I not afraid of your perfection?
I did not seek for it,
it landed before me in a beautiful shape,
and that is you.

You destroy the doorway
when you enter the room,
I close it behind you quickly.

Everyday you melt my insides,
like burning a burning candle,
dreaming hot, purple passion
from the flowers in my name.

Eyes .....
The way the swirling greens lock into me,
wide, wanting,
soft dizzy warmth.

Your lips I steal,
kisses folding together,
sharpening the pace,
as the infinite flicks through us.

We cannot be closer together,
unless burning wax folds our bodies.

... Please bring this liquid state,
dropped from a candle in the darkness.
...dropped from a candle in the darkness.


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I take the wings of the morning,
this is my rest forever, here will I dwell.

If the darkness shall cover me
then the night will be my light.

How precious are thy thoughts,
as I awake they are still with me.

I will speak of thy honor and love.


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Your eyes are enough
to drive a man crazy.
Your hair is enough
to drive a man insane.
Your body is a goddess's:
fine and fair.

Some say I am crazy,
some say I am obsessed.
I say they're right:
I'm obsessed with your beauty, my goddess,
and crazy with the love.




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Three roses for you, my love, today
Pink perfection in a long stemmed creation
Fragrant, like a thousand perfumes
Everlasting, eternally blessed
A gift of passion, Trinity
In our love... three elements, given
Faith, Hope and Love
Three precious gifts of light
Our love, undeniable, yet challenged
A world of conflict and separation
Attempting togetherness
Driven by wild attraction, determination
Faith in the possibility, happiness
Living in partnership, sharing
Hope in the future together, fulfilling
Loving, unconditionally, provocatively
Two lives in evolution, sharing
Living in harmony in adversity
Faith, Hope and Love
Three perfect roses for my love



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Like a petal is to a flower,
a wing is to a bird,
a pen is to a writer,
or a letter is to a word,

I complete you, as you complete me,
as funny as it may sound,
fate brought us together,
a rope so tightly wound.

My hand in yours,
together, forever we'll be,
sharing our lives with great content,
in timeless reverie.



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Come my soul!
release yourself of the prison of the body
and fly with me for the roads
unpublished and secret of my dreams.
Tell me my soul!
why you want to be tied
to a body that grows in age?
Come my soul!
Let us fly into the infinite
and while we arrive there
we go, making reality
each one of the dreams
Come my soul!
it is time of flying
it is time to transcend
it is time to abandon the flesh
and to reach the stars that wait for us
there in the infinite
Come soul!
Let us go to fly.

You will go back to me
because I am the meaning of your life!
You will return with stooping head
and the look lost in the memories;
you will return with your soul
loaded with new experiences
and sweet and sour livings
they were not able to erase,
the moments lived together with me.
You will return tired of traveling without direction
for unknown roads.
You will return with a smile
that wants to be cheerful
but it is the same sadness
leaving your mouth.
You will return again!
and I will be waiting for you
with open arms,
because to live without you is to live without living.
it is to die slowly in the nostalgia.
Yes, I don't deny it!
I will be waiting for you
because my life without you
doesn't make sense

I will be waiting for you
because you are the meaning of my life, too!!


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If this is love
then I worship it
Because in this
match is heaven
found
In loving, dreaming
and caressing
our thoughts
In creative passion,
passivity
And a new awakening
If this is love
then I am in
a perpetual dream
And will never leave
If this is love . . .




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The kayak slips into the fog
I think of the day ahead
and the calm of the morning
stirs within me... Thoughts

Thoughts of you
and the quiet smile
that beacons me both onward
and into the dream
That has taken years to realize

Your smile
warms my soul
Your eyes
delight my spirit

yet here in this solo boat
I am not alone
for you are with me
and in my heart


Knowing that within me
the fire of your embrace warms me
against the winds,
over the water and over time, that seems endless,
that we are apart

and yet, the pastels of the morning sunrise
pale to the colours my heart and spirit feel
when thoughts turn to you
and the times ahead and yesterday
times of hope of promise

and of Love... ours.




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Remember the night,
the moment shared.
Remember the light
and how we cared.

Remember the moon
and how it shown.
Not a moment too soon.
Oh, how close we had grown.

Remember the sound,
nothing in sight.
Nothing around,
only the light.

Remember the air
we breathed in deep.
We had not a care,
nor a reason to weep.

Remember the moment shared.
Remember the light.
Remember how we cared.
Remember the night.






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" I am here", she whispers into air that vibrates,
and the scope and colour of the spaces change.
The pounding reaches from within his chest to without-
reaching for the warmth and peace held at her breast.
Sharing the life blood and a chance for more,
she holds out a steady hand and touches his soul-
stilling the lonliness and filling the wound,
so that he rests easy, knowing it ever more shall be.



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You are the water I drink...
I see you in everything...
You are the air I breathe...
We will forever be...

I love you, whole body and soul...
I am cast in your spell, ever to hold...
You make my heart ever free...
My one true love you will be...

With your hand in mine is my life...
Together we'll make it through life's strife...
You are my love, my soul mate, dear...
I'll love you forever, have no fear....