I Am Afraid To Love Again
I am afraid to Love again,and yet I LOve you.
My fear is like a Wall I walk right through.
The Wall is there, and yet it doesn't stop me.
I need it still, and yet I still need you.
I know someday we'll be in a field
Surrounded by the blessing of the sky.
I'll dance with all the freedom of pure joy,
Needing you without a reason why.
But now I'm still afraid that I might lose you,
That you might not accept my desperate need.
You make me laugh and cry and be completely.
You are the Flower, I the slender reed
I Love you with all I am
And all I'll ever be
.
You are my moon, my sun and stars,
My earth, my sky, my sea.
My Love for you goes down and down
Beneath both life and death,
So deep it must remain when I
Have drawn my last faint breath.
Holding you for months and years
Will make Time disappear,
Will make your lips my lips, your face
My face,your tear my tear;
Will make us One strange personage
All intertwined in bliss,
Not man or woman, live or dead--
Just nothing--but a kiss!
I never thought I'd fall in Love with you.
I thought someday, of Course, I'd fall in Love.
But what it felt like, I just never knew;
I'd no Idea what I was thinking of.
And then, somewhere between my need and pleasure,
Walking neither overjoyed nor sad,
I looked into my heart and saw a treasure
Worth more than anything I'd ever had.
Ah! This is Love! I thought.
And then I wanted
To give my Life to see your happiness.
Suddenly, from nowhere, I was haunted,
Needy, joyful, tearful, glad, obsessed.
My Love for you has brought me out of me.
The beauty in your heart has set me free.
The vows I Will take Will be forever:
I'll Love you all my life.
There's no part way, no holding back
Once we are man and wife.
The choice is made, and now I swim
In a far different sea,
The shores of which are bright green hills
Raised up for you and me.
Our Love is like a mountainside
Awash in lovely Flowers:
It is our home, our solid rock,
Where all bright things are ours.
And though of need we often must
Spend our days apart,
Our Love Will always be with us,
Held within the heart.
I feel it now, so strong and free,
So part of every breath
That it must live--I swear it Will!--
Even after death.
I want you – I need you –I Love you,
I know this all to be true,
‘Cos my heart keeps skipping and bouncing,
For I am now engaged to you.
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