Chapter 19

Love Surrounding and Author's Epilog

Love Surrounding

In the dark

A simple word said in the dark

to bring about a fire from just a spark

and with a will this fire quenched

And in the morning, as Sun to rise

to my joy and surprise

a fire burns in her eyes

Smile I do as I arise

to quench again as love supplies

closeness as we exhausted lie

Together

To Thrill

That first night was a surprise

First a kiss, and then

not that instant to break in

our love

But eased in

with wonder’s dinner set a plate

with smiles and touches, it was great

As in his eyes his love shows

as I to steam, almost to blow

as I await

A dance or two to chase

to hold him in my embrace

excite him with love and lace

Dessert is eschewed

as in the nude we dance

as to thrill together, love enhance

Love making to satisfy

eve’s need, could not stand by

waiting

To rest but moments in between

a messy bed, a well trashed scene

this the best we’ve ever been

Languid after, to relax

realize this vital act

to culminate a waiting time

Added it is to spirit-love’s kind

where heart and mind

each other truly find

Our bodies to weather storm

as this act of love is freshly borne

love not waiting, and we are born

One day, One Time

Someday, sometime

we will sit peacefully by

each other doing little

One day, one time

we may find each others touch

much, too much

And I pray that day will never come

as you pray that I truly am your special one

every one of our days

Between that one day and now

let us play imaginatively and with vigor

a test up to which we measure

To find each day along the line

I am yours, and you are mine

busy, cherished and loved

As We Onward Live

A prayer I say into a Universe

of friends, to ask a simple thing

that we, as us becoming

together become all to each other

to those for whom we care

to give all that we can spare

in support

Support of each other, the children close

Ours? Who knows, but cared for

given any circumstance

your hand in my, our stance

as we onward live

to make, then find

our future’s strong stance

Life Sharing

Long the wait has been

sure we’ve become since then

of each other and our love

certain we are we fit like gloves

And now she’s here from across the pond

life and living can go on

future bound and on track

to reach our dreams, no turning back

Our hearts beating well in time

plans and intentions well aligned

what a wonder of a find

you to have found me in nick of time

Each to have touched another mind

to change from resistive to welcome kind

to have our hearts beat in time

with shared rhythm of life, a freshened find

Entwined

Entwined body, heart and mind

he, the very best man I could find

this is true, from what I find

his ideal expressing mine

I am happy

As we chatted away for hours

speaking of times that were ours

before the coming of his spirit

into my life so we could share it

Together

To find each is happy with change this time

from those in past left well behind

who had changed away from well aligned

in their own day and time

Leave each unwell back then

Those times in truth, we weathered

each of us to have hearts withered

form past pain that were delivered

as we were deserted

We recovered

To find in time, this one, this time

one where hearts and minds find

within, alignment between us fine

love in my heart to grow, once you to find

Glad I am

That you are here, the one for me

the only one who touches me

inside and out, you set me free

of that ever search, for him, the he

I’m in love, entwined your life

Morning Coffee

So long apart, wide oceans

between

It seemed that time would never end

just mean

Vagaries of time and space there

on which we lean

Hopeful to end this time away

sing hope

Into this world to have it go

in our favor

To bring a change to better scene

life sharing

And true, it has, and now our plans

arrive

And we to sit and sip together

morning coffee

Smiling, as upon his lap I sit

coffee time sharing

Excited, Invited

Morning coffee sitting there

getting cold

Oh my lap she sits, inviting

she is exciting

When I look at the real her

stimulated is my spur

As excitedly I stir

to rise

How is this even a moment’s surprise,

I wonder? Ha ha!”

And coffee gets cold while the mornings

gets old

As invited, both excited to dance

and play

Damn! You’re beautiful”, I often say

and again kiss you right away

We, Becoming

Finally free to move about

traveling far and farther out

beyond old realm and place

a changing world to face

As I fly to half a world away

dreaming, dreaming all the way

as travel, music plays

and I in my head all the way

I had lived a quiet life

of recent years, little strife

and then he came into my life

to change my heart, to bring alive

And now comes the time to land

hopeful is waiting there, my man

just beyond the exit gate

and in his arms best timing’s fate

I, excited for this fate

us together and feeling great

that at its end seems eternal wait

and expectations make me late

Then, to see him standing there

his aged self, seems young and fair

to my eye, he is pure gold

on Us, as We, I am sure sold

Butterflies in every part

as I respond to him, my vision’s art

once together, never part

waited too long, my lonely heart

The Gate

At the exit gate, waiting

long is time my love needs sating

for you to arrive, here and alive

much time is gone, and we survived

to come to this day where hope to thrive

I hear the announcement your plane arrive

my butterflies have come alive

in expectation of this time

when you come out through exit line

and we to see, then embrace in kind

My heart to act as if was twenty

of my frame demanding plenty

to keep me standing when energy empty

as I need a place to sit

none around, I could just spit

Neither sit or spitting do, as I am here for you

we each have been waiting long, it’s true

but today is the end of days most blue

as end comes of missing you

each other, we touch

The Sea

Walking slow, the beach to comb

no longer prospect future alone

your hand in mine, a new life is sown

as I set you upon your homey thrown

Queen in life, my best love

Where we to join in games enthrall

casting nets and throwing balls

within the halls of life ahead

soon our time in life for wed

Promised early, this coming state

As come soon before a Pastor

bow we each, yet neither Master

to work together throughout life

hand in hand, husband and wife

Long we’ve waited, now it’s right

And the sea before us lay

this place for dreaming’s and of play

where before its might, its tempestuous life

each say “I do” to make things right

Remember do, I love you “Two”

As a pair we are become one

underneath the Moon and Sun

as here we are with future set

bringing to life all we can together get

Ever Change

Ever change does time and life

an older man and younger wife

to test the frame of what should be

and find in the other means to free

With each to find just what could be

as building life with growing seeds

where can be found new ways and deeds

to grant for each fulfilled needs

Each to strengthen the other where week

build them bold where once were meek

make stable life’s shaky ground

find ways to enjoy life all-round

As tomorrow is not set in stone

we build our house and make our thrones

enable flesh and strengthen bones

no longer solo, not then alone

We go out then into broader life

stronger now as husband, wife

to go forward ever strong

encouraging life to go quite long

As ever we go forward so

into our future, each to show

care and succor, the other knows

as into our future together we are to go

Epilogue: Hers;

Wanted was respect, a home where judgment was not or only rarely, if ever, applied so that I can feel free to act as I will, as I have in the past and not have those actions weigh against me. Of all the men I have spoken to about my life, you are that one who gives me room to breathe, room to have erred in life and survived, room to have succeeded too, whose only judgment is that I can do well, and even better if I try. In your eyes I exist as someone to be loved and nurtured toward becoming more each day, month and year ahead. May our days be many as I experience your charm, feeling strengthened, not alarmed, by what you think and say. I love you ever. You bring light to who I am, and strengthen my way forward. My hand in yours, we will go through our days.

Epilogue: His;

Love, sought, and love found, each can be their own grace to the spirit and form of us all. I had not known that it was you I was seeking, dreaming of through so many years. Know that any other with whom I have been was in truth only a substitute for the you I have found and am with today. How many ways can I tell you I love you? One day, just maybe, I will find this out with you.

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