POETRY: SPEECHLESS

If I could but taste
Your kisses ever so sweet
As you gently and tenderly
Place them upon my cheek

If I could but gaze into your eyes
That outshine a starry night
Oh how happy I would be
To live a dream that has taken flight

If I could but touch
The very essence of your soul
To feel your warmth
Your heart's radiating glow

If I could but hear
Your lips part to speak
To say you love me and need me
Not just today but forever, each week

If I could but stop time
And live one moment forever
It would be when we two embrace
Souls united and not parting; ever

If I could but take your hand in mine
And from your side never part
To love you for all eternity
With my entire heart
Oh, how happy I would be

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my darling you

my love for you is true

this i know because i feel blue without you

 and if this heart dies before yours

         i promise

my darling i will be waiting for you

 for i will be blue

'cause i will be missing you
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How much love can one person have
To love until it hurts?
Some are not blessed with this lasting love
They only love in spurts.
To love someone so much that your mind
Loses all control
When someone holds all your heart,
And encompasses all your soul.
This love loves in spite of
Hurtful words and sad deeds,
One love knows the other
And what the other love needs.
This love gives hope and trust 
Treasured memories and tenderness
Changes lives, fulfills wishes
This love knows forgiveness.
Two lives merge in this love
Two hearts come together
No one breaks the ties that bind
This love lasts forever.
This love is so cherished
A heart cries when this love cries,
A heart hurts when this love hurts,
A heart dies when this love dies.
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Sometimes at night you close your eyes and?
You dream of places far away.
You dream of goals unachieved.

Sometimes at night you close your eyes and...
You imagine things yet to be discovered.
You imagine flying through outer space.

Sometimes at night you close your eyes and...
You see yourself as a child again.
You see the time you?ve let pass you by.

Sometimes at night you close your eyes and...
You wish you could be on top of the world.
You wish you could sleep.

Sometimes at night I close my eyes and...
I dream of being wrapped up in your arms.
I imagine feeling your lips against mine.
I see you looking at me from across the room.
I wish you were lying here with me.

Sometimes at night I close my eyes and see only you.
    

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I had a dream and you were standing there
The sky lit up by the moon
The air sat still as in a cocoon
Stars reflected in your eyes so clear and blue
The moment was perfect; untouched and true

In love I fell, too suddenly to comprehend
My heart would pound in a perpetually fast rhythm
You made me realize, I never wanted it to end

I had a dream and you were standing there
The wild look your eyes held
The way your thrashed, morning hair felt
I knew at that moment what I sensed, was real
I wondered if this is what you, could feel

In love I fell, too suddenly to comprehend
Sweat would drip from my nervous hands
My heart would only find comfort, when you could understand

I had a dream and you were standing there
Like honey, your sweet words stuck
Soft lips I longed to touch
Your strong embrace I could not leave
I grasped to the moment; 
took a deep breath and did not breathe...
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Never distant is my love for you
always & forever it will remain true.
I don't care how far away you live
because to me your love you give.
You could live 10,000 miles away
to see you I'd travel from day to day.

If only you could hold me every night
that would make me feel, oh, so right.
I wish you lived close by
because whenever thinking about you I cry.
So many people tell me not to trust you,
I know people tell you the same thing too.

I wish you lived right next door
So we could see each other more.
I think everyone should know
and I'm gonna tell it everywhere I go...
Never distant is my love for you
Always forever it will remain true.
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A burning heart full of fire,
 Moving along with no firm desire,
 Trying to find his life apart,
 Hoping to get some water
 For his burning heart.

 A burning heart crying aloud,
 Looking for love but there is no one around;
 Moving along with pain in his eyes,
 But there is no one who listens to his cries.

 A burning heart praying tight,
 Pleading for the strength to strongly fight
 The memories of the person it loved the most,
 And for a good life after the lover it lost.

 A burning heart full of fire, 
 Moving along with no firm desire, 
 Trying to find his life apart, 
 Hoping to get some water 
 For his burning heart.
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To you, my wife, I promise this?
I live each day? for your kiss.
For you, I?d walk a million miles?
If only to see your beautiful smile.

I?ll be with you, through the good and bad.
Whatever the mood... whether happy or sad.
May I never hurt you... or make you mad.
Instead, your thoughts of me, always glad.

I?ll walk beside you till our lives here end.
And God, to heaven, our souls will send.
To you, everything, I vow to give.
May you never regret the life we live.

?I love you? is what I wish to say.
If only I could... a thousand times each day.

When the sun goes down and out of sight...
A thousand candles, for you, I?ll light.
No matter what, I promise to hold you tight.
And love you, always, with all my might.

?I love you? is what I wish to say. 
 A thousand times, to you, each day.
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I take a breath as she comes up to me.
Speechless...
She speaks and steals my breath away. 
Words from her lips are like music to my ears.
Oh, to taste her smile.

Eyes so brown, lost in the sea of tranquility.
How can I walk when I'm blinded with such beauty? 
How can I speak?
She looks at me waiting for me to respond.
Oh, those eyes, her voice.
Already I miss her voice, the music that played softly to my ears.

So I take a breath and try to speak.
To sing to her like the woman in front of me.
Speechless...
I can't for beauty breathes in her
As her words flow with grace.

So I stand and dream.
I take in the air she breathes.
Listening to her voice.
Staring in those eyes, so blue.
Have you ever seen true blue?
Have you ever seen blue so beautiful?

Oh, those eyes, her voice.
Already I miss her voice, music to my ears.
Soothing to the soul.
I'll listen and remain...
Speechless.
10
So let it be that our lives
are but specks in the 
vastness of eternity.

Yet, it cannot be said 
that I have lived in vain. 

For the love I bear for thee
is greater than any force of nature.
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The texture of her body, so unique
Extravagant, the color of her radiance
Lost in deep thought, decrepit I am

Perfection is indescribable
Beauty is so sweet
An aura so unimaginable, turns me so meek

The yearning of her fatal touch
Her passionate feel and contingency, I await

Petal by splendid petal, her radiance exposed
Foreseen glamour, her precious taste, I know

Miraculous endearment, so gentle, I adore
The love she unleashes, her mind, I explore

Eternally, so capable, beauty so frail
Perfection is indescribable, 
The bloom, will never fail
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Love, defined by Webster as: 
An intense affection for another person
based on personal ties.?

I define it a bit different.
I define love by the look on your face as I stare into you eyes,
By the way that you smile 
just because we are in the same room together,
By the way that you laugh when I say something silly,
By the way we hold each other after making love.

Love is also that feeling we get when we miss each other so much, 
That feeling we get when we want to touch each other- but we cannot,
That feeling where our hearts are not complete, 
because we are far away.

They say that we are lucky if we experience true love 
just once in our life, 
We are, therefore, VERY lucky people, 
since we have something many people will never get to understand.

Yes indeed, Love has many definitions, 
but without you, I define Love as... nothingness.
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Moments, never meant to be...
unlimited possiblities.
Taken in the blink of an eye,
who are we to deny?

Moments, so precious and few,
divine time spent with you.
Never meant for you and I,
stolen hours on the sly.

Moments, we shall never trade,
always treasured come what may.
Showing how much we both care,
stealing time... when we dare.

so rare... 
so true...
so precious few...

Stolen moments in time.......
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The light swiftly chased
          the darkness away,
   and the cranny became illuminated.
          The hidden passion
        was suddenly revealed
  from the streams of truncated glory.

     Through the scent sprayed air
        your presence was felt
  as you gently stepped into the room.
      Desire rose amidst the aura,
     and my thoughts were twisted
     with every second of the hour.

       Looking through your eyes
          I saw reflections
       of past wayward thoughts,
      And my once ripped memories
     suddenly returned to the scene.
 Fearing the moments would prematurely die
          I gripped you tight
          while imagery of you
        browsed through my mind.

        Then I sit next to you.
     as you fed me with love,
      all the sweet-nothing sank
          deep in my brain.
       The passion never died
       as the night rolled by,
       but your magical words
   chased my mundane thoughts away.