POETRY: I LOVE YOU

He didn't know the value of her love, she gave it to him freely.
She gave him a thousand little things he never noticed.
What now?
When her hands are empty and still he doesn't see her.
All the almost-insignificant things she can't list for him,
piled up now and disregarded like extra napkins and used plastic forks.

When she took his hand, it was the first hand she ventured to take
and when she asked for his kiss
it was the first kiss she ever asked for.
Perhaps time has little value,
but she waited for him to ask for her.
Left days open should he want to see her.
She saved up her pretty words and smiles and little touches.

He didn't know the value of her love.
Didn't know the cost of loving someone for her
when she knows all too well how much they can hurt you when you love them
but she loved him anyway.

He didn't see the beauty in her.
She worked so hard to polish away the rough edges
to be healthy and whole.
She learned how to love herself
so she would believe someone else could do the same.
But he didn't see that. Didn't see her.

He didn't know the value of her love.
But she loved him anyway.
And paid for it in full measure.
And loved him anyway.




2

You may forget me after twenty years,
I will never forget...
Your smile, with dimples.
Your intelligent mind,
You eyes twinkling
as two lonely stars
in the black cape of darkness.

Your love for me, I will never forget
I will never forget the one time,
I held you in my arms, all night long.
My fingers twisting in your dark hair.
Your face shinning in the full moonlight...
Waves crashing against us,
Our souls turning into one

That night,  I will never forget
as long as I shall live...
I spent that one magical night with you.




3

If I told you that I love you,
Would my words still catch your ear?
Or would the heart that longs for you,
Continue to shed its tears?

Would you ever say or utter
those three words again?
Will I ever have the chance,
Because it's your heart I hope to win?

I doubted the true love you claimed to have,
I was afraid to truly love you back.
And by now I'm sure your heart has mended,
Yet, mine remains under brutal attack.

But I deserve everything I have suffered,
Every tear that has run down my cheek.
You were right when you said I'd never find another like you,
And that's why it is you I seek.

You hold the key to my heart,
And every dream I desire.
Your love is so inspirational,
But it's how you love that I admire.



4

y sweet love, oh, my sweet love,
thou hast stolen my heart for thine own. 
Oh, how I long for thine touch, so sweet and gentle. 
Thine lips are like unto a silken feather, so soft to mine. 

Oh, my love, my sweet love,
how I do so ache for thee. 
My heart is lost without thee to guide it. 
My soul is empty without thee. 
All else fades dead away, compared to thine beauty. 

Oh, my love, my sweet love,
I give to you all that I am,
all that I know, and I that I hold dear. 
Take my heart, and do as you shall with it. 
My love for thee shall be eternal,
shall last through time and age.

Oh, my love, my sweet love,
I am humbled unto you. 
Thine eyes as heaven's light,
so gleaming and so pure. 
Thine skin is soft, like unto velvet,
that which I should die to have but a touch. 

Oh, my love, my sweet love,
God give me these hands to hold thee,
and these lips to kiss thine own. 
Oh, thine voice is like unto a thousand angels,
singing their praise. 
Thine hair is like silken threads. 
Thine hands, so soft and fragile,
oh, how I long for their touch. 

Oh, my love, my sweet love,
surely I could not breath without you. 
Surely I should hide my eyes from thee,
that I am not worthy to gaze upon such perfection.

Oh my love, my sweet love... where art thou?




5

Blind love is a defect in our lives
No matter how much we deny it
That love grows and makes us strive
Even though we try to forget

I always thought love happened over time
But that all changed the day I met you
So now I sit here endearing this rhyme
As I hope and pray you'll see it too

I wasn't a love writer, love was wrong to me
But you opened me up to this painful greatness
The love I once feared is now my foe and enemy
It's brought me so much pain but it now brings me happiness

That happiness is brought by your extravagant smile
Your beautiful face and your angelic eyes
I will no longer be afraid of love or live in denial
Your light even makes the angels cry many times

You?re my angel sent from the heaven above
You may not see that but I do and always will
But even if we're not together you'll always be my real love
Maybe one day you'll see but remember I?ll still love you
Always ...and forever


6

My love is you
you are my love.
You're everything
I have wanted and needed.
You are my life, my heart,
and my soul. With you I feel
complete. I love you will all
of my heart. Just know that my
feelings for you are true.


7

Come with me and you will see
just how heavenly love can be.
I know together we could find
a love so strong and, yet, so kind.

I had this feeling from the start
You were my love, you held my heart.
Someday I hope and also pray
that you'll love me just that way.

I could never live without you
here in my heart I hold you, so, dear.
Will you ever love me that much
will I ever feel your touch.

Will I ever reside in your heart
and if you don't love me... could you start.
I promise to never ask much from you
Just that your love is always true.

Then, I'll know, when I die
that life didn't just... pass me by.


8-

Our eyes locked
And I fell in
Suddenly overcome with calm
The world became silent
And I became lost
All of this while standing so still
I forgot everything
To breathe, to think
Where we were and the environment around us
Just peace and calm
As I kept falling
With a feeling growing deep within


9-

Love is like a journey...
That must be embarked upon...with heart so bold.
Every step taken in all seasons
Will lead to the right destination.

Love is like an adventure...
That must be sought with feelings so bright.
Every move made in hills and valleys
Will guide in the right direction.

Love is like a puzzle...
That must be fixed with mind so sound.
Every selection made with confidence and pride
Will give the right combination.

Love is like an equation...
That must be solved with patience and calm.
Every problem encountered along the way
Will help reach the right solution.

Love is like a lesson...
That must be learned with heart so pure.
Every topic taken, and tests to be given
Will help me understand you the more.


10-

To love you is divine

I long for your ever-loving eyes

For which the stars are born

I long to give you pleasure

Through my kiss

I live to see you

I'd die to do the same

My love for you could never bring me shame

If you still doubt my love for you

I will climb the highest mountain too

I will jump from the heavens to you anywhere

I can give you love like no other

I am your willing slave

Do to me what you wish

So I can give you one last kiss



11-

What you are to me....

You are the  world to me...
you are the sun that brings my day....
the moon and stars that guide me through the night.

You are the seeds and plant- my flowers....
the axis that makes the Earth rotate ..
the  blood flowing through me ....
that gives me life...
you keep my heart beating....
...each day of my life.

Whenever I was weak, you gave me the strength I needed...
When I was sad you lifted my spirits....

You are the reason I go through each day....
....and each night.
Your love is like the food that lets me live....
.....you are the world to me.




12-

You've taught me so much about love
About the realness of angels above
How when the earth is very still
You can actually hear their voices reel!
You've brought me laughter across tables
You even told me I was able...
To forsake the tears in my eyes...
Because you didn't want to see me cry.
You opened the doors to all the joys...
I have never experienced before
You're even willing to let me play...
With all your big boy toys!
I stand amazed at your tireless ways...
To show  me how much you love me!
And how wonderous it will be
When finally our love will accomplish...
All that life should be!



13

When you drift off into dreams tonight,
Send your heart my way.
And I'll send mine to meet you,
Where love can have it's play.

And send your soul there also,
Though the distance might be far.
Perhaps out there our souls will touch,
Somewhere among the stars.

I've been searching for a lifetime,
For someone who understands.
My deepest hidden passions,
The way I think you can.

Could our dreams connect each other,
In a place we've never been.
In a way we've never touched,
But here we might begin.

Could you confide all your passions,
Talk of wants, your needs and cares.
Talk of pain and oh yes laughter,
In this dream far off somewhere.

It would not be an easy task,
To connect a dream that way.
Yet that's why dreams are special,
Because you think they might someway.


14

though the sun is shining and the sky is blue
my heart longs for you...
deep inside me there is a hole that only
your love can fill...

when you look at the stars tonight
let it be my eyes you see
and there you will find all the love I have for you
so, if you are lonely and blue while missing me
know this, my luv, that my heart is longing for thee...

as I dream tonight, I'll dream of you
and in this dream we will be as one...
kissing, touching, tasting desire that burns oh, so hot!
both seeking pleasure and release
from the heat that binds us together....

and as we crest the top of the mountain
in, oh, sweet ecstasy!
look into my eyes and you will see
my soul opened to you and
everything that I have and all that I will be
because of your love for me.





15-

I find it sad...
we wait out whole lives to find true love
yet, when it comes knocking at our door
we turn it away like a beggar without money.
Why is it we do this...
are we too selfish,
too self-absorbed,
too scared?
Too scared of what we know so little about;
Or, are we just scared of the word Forever?
Love is supposed to be...
so powerful,
so mysterious,
and so wonderful.
So, why do we turn it away?
A question that will never have an answer



16

When two hearts meet as ours do
When one and one, so perfectly, make two
When laughter and tears collide
When rapture and fear reside
When one is meant for another
When our hearts and minds lay uncovered

There is simplicity in every kiss
There is a heartbeat in every wish
There is meaning in every word
There is strength in the absurd
There is wonder in daily trials
There is the thing that makes life worthwhile

When all things come together, old and new,
That is when I know... I love you


17

I LOVE...
The look in your eyes,
The smell of your hair,
That makes me have to stop and stare.

The softness of your skin,
The feel of your lips,
As I'm touching you with my fingertips.

The warmth of your smile,
How you act so shy,
Makes it harder to say goodbye.

The shape of your body,
When you smell so good,
It makes me want to love you the way I should.

These are the things that make me love you,
and me loving you is my favorite thing to do.



As if someone turned up the brightness of the stars
Just enough to wake us up.
As if they intensified the stillness of the night
Until we realized that we were in each other's loving embrace.
And the way we started to speak, as if we had not been deep in sleep
The moment before,
Sending a warm ripple through the silence,
A single word becoming a murmer of love and a simple touch becoming a caress
And our slightest movement, a promise of more.
Skin so alive, desire so subtle!
And the very knowing what was unfolding, as if directed by a silent hand,
Made it all the more real, degree by delicate degree.
And a silent breath became a gust of desire and
A moan became the cry of intense longing
And a caress grew to an affirmation of a deeper motion
About to arrive.
And how awake we were!
As if heaven's door had been left ajar, its sweet air
Overflowing through the night into our open window.
How long our need for each other!
How deep the acceptance of this magic moment
Which started as a blink in the dark and grew to become
Hot waves of lust rolling through our united bodies
Carried by the surging blood, by the scents and sounds, by the touches and pushes,
The intensity building to the place where
It was no longer possible to satisfy the desire to join as one,
Not possible for two mortal shells to become as close as the emotions had merged
In this bright living night.
We would have to breathe each other in, eat each other whole
To touch that craving
Which was born in the scent of three a.m. air,
And which now lies between us, panting
In the glow of amazement and delight, melting
With the memory of such sweet touch.
Once in a while, there comes a night like this,
When two become one for a precious eternity,
Joined in some unpredictable luscious moment,
Creating a new place to be, a place to start again,
As the sound of morning birds
Sends us back to the very sleep from where we came,
The waves of slumber washing clean
The prints we just made on the shores of our consciousness.



Before, it was my heart that held the truth to be known
But now it's hard because its been torn
Not knowing what to do, or which way to go...
Wishing that someone had the directions, or could show

Show me....how to move on, how to let go, or how to not care...
Because I ask myself if she's not here, are you going to be there??
You never know what it's like totally on your own...
Something I hope you never have to be shown.

Wanting only to love, and be loved, one more time
Knowing that's what it's going to take to show me "it will all be fine"
One small little word that means so much
Is keeping me from feeling another man's touch..

That one word restrains me
It won't set me free,it won't let me be....
It runs thru my body like my blood, flowing and non-stop...
All it takes is one small, lethal, antidotal drop.

Then you can't let go, and you feel like it's not ever going to be right
Feeling like you can't let go, wanting to but scared.
Wanting to feel another, taste another, smell another, is it fair??
All because of one small 4 letter word, one small drop thats so lethal.

Knowing with it, your relationship will prolong
Is it right, to hold onto another, blind of all others out there???
Thinking that they couldn't really ever care
Not as much as he did, not that they'd ever know.

But damn! should I let them all go??
This one small 4 letter word has a grip so tight
I think I finally have met my challenging fight.
One question...if I win, will I really be better off in the end??

Will my heart truly totally mend??
Is it worth the fight, to fight a word so small
I have no choice it has me backed into a brick wall....
So what do I do,I can't ignore it...or let it be....
So now the only answer I have is to ask it to, "PLEASE SET ME FREE"...

Losen your grip on my heart,and let me move on so I can once again see
That I truly can love again and not have to hurt.
I can pick my beaten, heartless, body up out of this dirt...
Continue on this journey in life,
But after and only after YOU SET ME FREE!!!!