I could sit here and quote you Shakespeare all day, but they’d be his thoughts and not mine. I could take Keats’ lines and post them to you, maybe that would suit you just fine. 

I could send you lyrics that profess my undying love, from songs already sung, but plagiarism’s such a foolish pastime and once it’s been done it’s done. 

So the thoughts you receive are the ones I perceive,  these lines that flow through my soul. I claim nothing is real apart from what we feel it’s this that’s keeping  me whole. 

I followed footprints in a path well trod they led me nowhere new. I pause at every turning still, heartbeats in a queue. 

I watch the birds take flight from the sodden field, so graceful as they soar. Far below I watch them still, never needing more. 

I taste the salt from the winter gale and hunger for that chill. The numbness that brings me to life, floating upon the thrill. 

I want to be at the waters edge and forget the world exists. To feel that thunder in my veins, to let it all go from my unclenched fists. 

Moment of realisation when all’s not as it seems. Drifting in isolation caught up in my dreams. 

Catching up with nothing, foothold’s built in sand. Words unravel before me, empty slight of hand. 

Tripping my way through here, passing by what shone so bright. Lost my path somehow, lost that guiding light. 

Spitting out the promises like poison from a pen.                       Once it’s spoken you can’t take it back, I hold my breath and start again. 

What price satisfaction how much will it take? Seems like self destruction all the mess we make.

How’s my crucifixion do these nails go deep enough? Mixing fact with fiction. Keep it real, keep it rough. 

Lines drawn just deception? All these visions that you crave. Am I the master of this conception or just a willing slave

There’s a peace in my soul the like I’ve never known. Aftermath of everything else has left these bones. Clarity of love frees my heart.

I search for words to write to explain this light that you’re giving me. Like the caged bird that sings needs to spread its wings to be this free.

I’d grown cold on stories told of how love should be. I lost the fight inside, made the choice to hide, but you’ve captivated me. 

In a heartbeat, darling. That’s the time it took to take a deeper look and be in love with you. 

In the darkest moments it’s the knowledge of light that makes you breathe. When the world keeps on pushing I feel you kick I hear you scream. 

Pay no mind to what’s on the surface, be the roots at the depths of your soul. The shadows they come and go my dear. Let your heart be in control. 

Close your eyes let your troubles go, let me take them all away. Apathy can only bind you to the dark. Don’t let it be the ruler of your ways. 

First lights glare I feel you there gathered around me. 

You ground me. 

Lift my head from this empty bed and feel you beside me. 

The tide in me. 

Morning fades a caffeine haze and it’s you I crave. 

My perfect wave. 

This humanity hum leaves me numb, but I hear you.   

You’re all that is true. 

Pages turned, lessons learned and the slate is clear. 

I feel no fear. 

Falling leaves, cold winter breeze and the fire in me.

Everlasting and free. 

Railroad track, bringing me back to your warm embrace. 

Our beautiful space 

I’ll turn these words into birds and they’ll fill your sky 

Till the oceans run dry. 

Never thought I’d feel this, the gracefulness dripping from my fingertips. Didn’t think I’d be here to witness how beautiful  being could be.

Freedom opened all these doors, you laid the pathway that led me to yours. In a heartbeat, darling.         I’ll lay with you and feel what you feel. 

I hope that today you find a seed and plant it deep. That you nurture and watch it grow. I hope that seed is full of happiness. I hope it teaches you something truly wonderful.
I hope.

I watch the words fall from his lips. There is nothing more enticing, how they spill in these moments turning hours into shadows. 

Nobody says my name this way, nobody makes me feel so beautiful. His touch life affirming, awakening my soul.

I want him like wanting is oxygen, breathless without it, holding out for euphoria with every gasp, he makes it flow.

I’m complete in his presence, in the silence of his arms. He stirs a hunger in me and I am ravenously his.