I wonder
How many of these words
We've spoken to each other
In other lifetimes together
Eventually your thunder stops
Echo chamber quiets
Left with your storm cloud
In stillness alone
My sunlight won't be there
To brighten your gray skies
Do you think I didn't notice
You stopped watching my story
When I starting writing
In the language of love
I stare at her in wonder
She is modern art
Mondrian, Nevelson, Pollock
Some fools don't get it
Bravery required every day
While she wears it on her sleeve
Her sexuality, her heart
Bundle of complexity
Tough but soft
Driven yet sentimental
They don't understand the beauty
How she takes control
To kiss me gently
Masculine packaged girl
Who loves her flowers
Her words take me dancing
Though sometimes I lead
Our scales balance
The emotional weights
Give and take
My goodness she's a giver
And I live in awe of my luck
That I even get to hold her hand
I wrote to you many times
Not knowing the address was yours
Sent my words on the air
Out of my hands
Calling to you blindfolded
And the universe carried you to me
I met you in my bedroom
You don't like the lines in your face but
I read them like a storybook
How often a big grin spreads across
Your skins remembers
The magic of your laughter
I'm jealous of the sun
All its kisses to your forehead
And of time itself
The journey you've had together
Walking alongside your growth
Now here you are in front of me
A champion of all the past
Challenges and heartache
Crinkles around your eyes
Show your resilient spirit
And my intention and promise:
I'll make those smile lines deeper
My love your love Acid Rain Pouring down on me I raised my face Drink it in Burning My eyes my throat So parched Thirsty for any Drop