You Are

You are the grace and the beauty,
the tranquility and the song.

You are the blossom in blooming,
the laughter and the joy.

You are the sunlight and the rainbow,
the spirit and the wind,

You are the warmth and the passion,
the excitement and the flame.

You are,
the love of my life.

Whenever You Are Near

Whenever you are near to me
my heart smiles
and my soul

rejoices
in the transcendent beauty of love.

Whenever you are near to me
my spirits rise
and my passions flame,
awakening
to a new promise of life.

Whenever you are near to me
my mind swirls
and my thoughts blur,
searching for sense
in emotions beyond my own understanding.

Whenever you are near to me,
I want to hold you
even nearer.

I Thought I Knew

I thought I knew what I was doing
when I did the things I used to do,
and I did not think there was anything
anyone else could say or do
to make me feel any different.

Then one day you did something
that no one had ever done before
and once you had done that,
I discovered there was a way of doing things
that was different
from the way I had been doing things
and I realized
that the way I had been doing things
was contrary
to the way things should be done.

Now I do things differently,
and everything I do
is done in a better way
because now whatever I do,
I do it with love,
and love is a better way,
which is something
I would have never known
if you had not done
what you did
when you brought love
into my life.

My Heart Smiled

I awoke
to wireless reports of mayhem and anxieties.
I traveled to work
in a congestion of noisy traffic jams,
clattering cattle cars,
and immobile subterranean shuttles.
I raced the clock
to meet deadlines and commitments.
I was belittled, besmirched, and nearly beheaded
by bottom line boasting bosses.
I labored through daylight
and slumped beneath stars.

I ventured homeward
haggard and weary,
tired and trodden,
yet through it all my heart smiled,
thinking of you.

Everything About You

There is music in your voice
     and laughter in your eyes.
There is tenderness in your touch
     and warmth in your embrace.
There is grace in your footstep
     and gentleness in your walk.
There is beauty in your smile
     and wonder in your kiss.
There is everything about you
     that fills my heart with love.

What I Want Most

What I want most
is to walk hand in hand with you
to the highest mountain top,
far above the cluttered world
that only seems to keep us apart.

I want to walk with you through sheltering clouds
that keep us in a world to ourselves.
I want to shout out loud
and listen to the echo repeat over and over,
"I love you, I love you, I love you."

What I want most is to know you love me.
I want to know there is a forever,
and forever our love will last.

Complete and Full

My love for you is complete and full.
It consumes my heart
and spreads through the corridors of my soul
like the soft glow of candlelight
chasing away the darkness of loneliness.

My life, my self, my very being
I live to share with you.
As each day passes,
my desire grows stronger and stronger,
for the love you send in return
lifts me to unlimited heights,
inspiring me to reach for the best in life.

Your love is the torch igniting my passion
the feast for which I will forever starve.
You are the answer to all my prayers, hopes, and dreams.
I love you with all my heart.

Your Love

Your love
has lifted me
from the morass and tedium of everyday life
weighing like a heavy anchor
on so many lonely souls.

Your love
has cut loose
my own anchor of doubt and despair,
freeing me to reach
for all I desire.

Your love
has unlocked
the chambers of my heart
and released into my spirit
the happiness of being alive and in love.

Your love
is the sun
nourishing my soul.
It is the spark
to my spiritual fire.

Your love
enflames me
with passion and desire
filling me with hope, strength, and courage.

Your love
tells me
I am alive.

Unmistaken

When I wake in the mornings
my thoughts are filled with images of you.
You are never the same,
always hinting at the promise of a new and scintillating excitement.
The more I know you,
the louder my heart beats for you.
A look, an embrace, a kiss from you
are my fondest pleasures.

When I hold you close,
so close your heart
beats inside my own,
I feel our very souls embrace
and I am complete,
for my happiness is one
with its source.

My love for you is unmistaken,
for there is no mistaking
what is true in my heart.

Beautiful Visions

When I am alone, 
my thoughts drifting through my memories 
like feathers in the mist, 
I wrap myself in a shroud of beautiful visions, 
and spend time thinking of you.


I hear your radiant smile 
laugh with the promise of joy. 
I taste your tears 
wash away the bitterness of disappointment. 
I startle 
at the scent of your mysterious privacy, 
and I delight 
at the touch of your dance. 

I see the passionate excitement 
in your hushed voice, 
and I feel the inseparable love 
of two souls 
sharing a great discovery.


I think of you
and I am no longer alone.

A Thousand Dreams

I crossed a barren, desolate expanse
fraught with dark depressions
falling sharply into the inky blackness
of bottomless depths.

I cut a swath
through an enclosing thicket
of fallen dreams
and broken hearts.

I swam a sea
of muck and mire,
struggling against a great tide
of suffocating indifference.

I scaled
towering peaks
with jagged rocks
poised to bleed my heart of desire.


I came
to a garden
rich with the tantalizing sounds
of whispered breaths.

I drew
from a well of endless love
and tasted the sweetness
of fulfilled promises.

I rested
on a soft cloud of tenderness,
blanketed by petals
of comforting reassurance.

I dreamed
a thousand dreams.
In each,
I followed my heart to you.

Love at First Sight

If some prognosticator
of great renown,
or mystical soothsayer
peering into a crystal ball,
had knowingly spoken
such a notion into my life
I would have scarcely believed them,
for what they proffered as foreknowledge
I would have dismissed as mere fodder
for legendary tales
or whimsical daydreams,
reserved for fantasy followers
and those who walk the edge of other worlds.

Then my gaze
caught the glimmer of eternal beauty
reflected in the depths of your eyes,
and what had been for me
indiscernible,
in an instant
became real and undeniable.
It was sudden
and without warning,
taking the shape and form
of a promise once given
but long ago forgotten
then finally fulfilled.

Your soul
called to me
with a soft, sweet, gentle song
of a peaceful, tranquil come-hither.
Your essence
whispered a fragrance
of reassuring touches
as it swirled through my senses,
intoxicating me with a new awareness
of life as it was meant to be lived.

It was but a moment in time,
but it was a moment
transcending all measure of time.

I saw you,
and I discovered the impossible truth
of love at first sight.

Obsession

At first
it was but a distant speck
at the farthest horizons
of my imagination.
A seemingly insignificant
wisp of a dream,
destined to be swept away
by the rush of life,
it gradually grew to consume more and more of my conscience.

It became
a lingering companion,
constantly drifting through my thoughts.
a habit,
something to be pursued.
I began to look for it,
wait for it,
expect it with a tingle of excitement.

Now
it is an obsession,
a stirring desire.
It has entwined itself
with the very fibers of my soul.
It has become
the focus of all my thoughts and actions.

I am
prisoner
to the spell of your love.

I Know of a Place

I know of a place
unremarkable in style and stature. 
It draws not so much as a glance 
from casual passers-by. 
It is the destination 
of not a single royal entourage. 
It does not embrace 
the grandeur of a significant architectural style, 
nor does it reflect the tastes 
of a particular social influence.

It is simple and plain, 
nothing more than 
shelter from the storm, 
yet it is the place 
for which I always long. 
It is the chosen end 
to all my wandering paths. 
It is where 
my sweet love waits for me.