Love
Recovery
Aided in finding our road home
our love again is seen as sown
among time-annals find
Monique, a friend of unexpected kind
with heart so big with empathy
as nowhere else to find
As with choicely spoken words
she helped us to cast aside what absurd
and again each other find
Yet for a time, as recovery unwinds
securing sure and working line
a safety we are then to find
Not in moments, nor in days
does success of understanding come in play
more and more assurances align
And our words remain our own in time
free of hurtful, and evil mind’s
distorting words, false plan in mind
Each to take a bit of time to assure
the other and selves that true was cure
and no evil on our lines
Days and days this action takes
secure our heart, no trouble make
each assured, the best of find
And as assurance come to pass
certain we each, the other found
satisfied, we share love and mind
Trust & Love
‘Trust’
Rediscovered with care and assurance
we to embrace, tentatively,
as comfortable in each others presence
we become
As more and more trust again won
to have the trouble cast out
to bring a better state, aplomb
we rejoice
And trust, once lost, rebuilds
as more and more shared words to thrill
and excite, bringing love to greater heights
our flame relights
‘Love’
In words we share “Come thither’s”
as our dream of closeness recovers from “withers”
our souls and hearts to mate
when distance is too great
Each to gift the other their art and artistry
couched is words and pleasantries
to shape again our future days
common graces, shared ways
To fill again hearts once broken
not with lies of darker tokens
but with truths of fact that once were lacked
bring heart-wholeness fresh spoken
Singing Hearts
For days on days we interplay
words of affection each to say
with depth and meaning
in every say
With amazing effect a-play
As again our music sounds
as bell, again our love to sound
so very loudly in our lives
as we again begin to thrive
In the best company ever
Would that we were close together
now that storms our love has weathered
and we to touch and grace each other
with love’s special pleasures
And music sounds
In the background, a tune to play
a dancing tune with swing and sway
to keep us dancing night and day
as love to find its special way
As “I love you” each to mean, and say
With the Door Open
Gray had been the times when
you were not here, things seemed to end
we each were lost, set unexpected free
from the plans we’d had, you and me
and the door closed, pain showed
in each our lives
With the door again opening
beyond the dreaming and the hoping
now we see broad possibilities
as we’re together and moving free
toward our future time together and aligned
with our love cleansed, refined
Now sadness curtains are back pulled
efforts of interlopers null and blurred
as the light of truth upon them lay
to force them back, true gone away
and life to follow as was planned
our feet now freshly on forward time’s sands
Alive my Heart
Alive my heart when once was dead
it stayed alive by just a thread
when you were gone, as fore time lead
Surprised I was on your return
always something new to learn
about the nature of lover’s heart
Pleased beyond any measure I am
and your heart I treasure
as I look upon your face with favor
When it is time you come my place
to show your aged but handsome face
as our words to interlace
Across the ocean, across the sea
over the land there in between
that not a pleasing scene
But you are here, on you I lean
to keep my heart a lively thing
as it flies on love’s bright wings
Your Love, a Gift
Although I was deceived for a time
as hoped, stars and times to realign
so that you, really you, the one I find
I see the truth this final time
Not again to be deceived
not again to make you grieve
not again my heart to leave
you are the one I need, believe
A gift you give me,
yourself in love
none other to take your place
none to express your giving grace
My heart is yours, your name is traced
within my life, as you have made your place
there to teach a lonely man
what it is with love in hand
Thank you oh-so-very-much
for your love and softest touch
as you’ve come back into my life
soon, we’ll be man and wife
Here are Flowers
Handed from across the sea
gives a florist to you, from me
a simple bouquet of roses be
to tell you true my heart is yours
proving you have plainly scored
in your try to win my heart
may us never be apart
Glowing Bright
In my dreams late at night
after moon where dreams alight
I find you there with all your care
your hands in mine, a scene quite fair
in life I truly want you near
to quell and assuage my every fear
It is your form and heart needed near
as important for all loving pairs
we are together, and ever paired
my heart is yours, makes people stare
when I go singing by, no longer cry
and your word roses to fill my heart
Glowing bright my face and eyes
noticed by all passersby
even to me as makeup apply
in the morning mirror by
and you, your ever in my mind
as our lives become well aligned
Absence of Tears
Finally, as life to change
from darker days
with all their bane
As you come in
with your precious grin
nothing false therein
Your mind and heart
with freshened start
to bring us both to win
Cast aside those troubles been
that came between, a sin
life takes on best form again
Taking shape with fine grace
as gown with applique of lace
set a beautiful days a-place
As the absence of tears
the allaying of fears
has our love going up to cheer
And each in life
find husband or wife
who then calms any income strife
To put in place
a saving grace
for each
In She Walks
Into my life she walked
a moment unexpected
as her grace and poise
came to quiet the noise
From a lonely broken heart
In she walks, all beauty
with her words to hold me
to show me something more
than lonely as a score
And I, reflecting, am impressed
As she came in quiet, no duress
to touch that empty place
that had not ever been well graced
with favor
I smile and hold her close
I Speak of Her
I speak of her in finer words
expressing what I see
I expound upon her affects
upon my life and soul
I tell of how she’s been with me
her gift of compassion quite free
Of how her coming buoyed me up
and seems to set me free
From the chains which long remained
from the troubles that I have seen
I tell of the comfort I find
in her ways and arms
And of the way she shields me
from many hurts with charm
I speak the words “I love you”
and mean them to my core
I am sure I will speak them out
beyond and evermore
For Him I’ve longed
I thought I knew what I wanted
down all this time and years
someone to hold me
and cast away my tears
someone bold and strong
to keep me safe and well
then I looked upon his face
aged, with years to tell
not speaking of protection
or anything so swell
in his eyes was comfort
I seemed to know him well
though no words had passed, oh well!
Then when our words came flowing
I came to see it well
my heart was his already
I was under his unique spell
his every word to please me
even though some seemed fell
somehow I was soothed
I do not understand that well
his words, they came to calm me
in places long a-rash
he came in quietly
not with a heavy splash
and him, I welcome