The Lighter Side
poems of a lighter sort
TIME WILL TELL
Is it really love, these emotions that I feel?
Will our summer promises hold through the years?
As the days drift by, your touch seems more like a dream
Pictures of your face are worn from my caress
Will you be in my future, or will you simply fade?
It's not my choice, only time will tell
WONDERFUL
Four letters have consumed my life
Every moment with you is perfect, so safe in your strong arms
Every moment without you I can think of nothing else
At night I thank God for this wonderful obsession
Then I sleep only to dream of you
UNTITLED
Dreams
and memories smudged like the colors in an artists painting
One inhabiting the other
What is real and what is not?
Illusions dance through my head
What is my reality?
CRAVING
So strong, perfect, and beautiful
How I long to be a part of your world
A god in all your glory
Radiating warmth and golden lust
That sweep over me
My very existence craving you
SHADOW GIRL
Forever I have loved you
I hid in the shadows admiring you
Then the day came when your eyes met mine
You pulled me out of the shadows and taught me to love
You showed me life in all of it's glory
As wonderful and beautiful as you
COMFORT
Your arms encircle me
hold me as I cry
listen to my heart's voice
bring back my smile, my joy, my purpose
What you mean to me you'll never understand
But you are still there, my wonderful comforter
STAR GAZING
How many times have I wished on that single, sparkling star?
Wished for love
Wished for life
Wished that for one solitary moment I would find what I had been missing all along
In that perfect second I wouldn't have to ask if that star holds the answers that my soul craves
Or the power to make my dreams come true
KISS
I savor you like the last bit of chocolate bought with carefully saved Sunday pennies
LOVE SPEAK
Each kiss a symphony of words unspoken
Eyes full of message speak to the heart
Lovers communicating in a language all their own
Understanding each beat of the heart or whisper-soft breath
YOU
Missing you is bitter sweet
Blissful memories of you wrapped around my heart
I pray that you'll come to me in dreams to comfort and hold me once again
Yet alone I awake without you
ORANGE KISS
What is it that makes me crave you so?
Fresh love like an orange blossom kisses my lips underneath a cobalt blue sky
Quickly we part as another couple passes by
Their love could never be as sweet as ours
Lips meet again in a flurry of anticipation
Warm hands pulling me down into a warm crimson love
LOVE?
uncertainty creeping up with dark foreshadowing
Do I trust my own heart so uncertain?
WEB
The realization of love sneaks up on you like a pink cloud encircling your world
The next moment you realize that you've become entangled in a honey-spun web of bliss
WHY?
Each day I expect you to fade, to disappear like the others have, ripped from my soul
Procrastinated love kept my heart safe from the pain of loss, each time more devastating
Your constant ness draws out my emotions from their dark loneliness, coaxing them with sweet words and honest actions
Realization sends awkward happiness to the stiffly frozen limbs, never yet awakened by the touch of real love
Unsure and afraid, yet willing to risk the heart and take the chance of finding love deprived for so long