For Her

I want to tell you...
I want to tell you how I feel
How when I’m with you
My only way to be is real
That with my existence
Came the resistance for me
To find the wounds that I could not see
Until you came to nurture and heal me
And so I kneel
You cradle me in your arms
The evil inside me is what you seal
And so I grow with you
And I learn
That there are so many ways
For fire to burn
The passion inside me
Is what makes me yearn for you
All my life it seemed to me with others
I always had to take a turn
But not with you
I love you
And without you there’s emptiness
When I wake up and you’re not there
All I miss is your skin’s caress
And how the love we harness
Brings natural stress and our lives
Become, in your words, a hot mess
But I love it and I know you love it no less
Your lips, your eyes, your hips, your smile
Your sense of style
The way you love to have sex
And all the while
Our life of no regrets
Is what I love
What I want to hold and protect
I am a mirror
It is you who I want to reflect
Your passions, your ideas, your loves
The way you never reject and always accept
Anyone who wants to share their intellect
Or interject new points of view
Whether slightly askew or inept
But I digress
I need you
Like the desert needs rain, no,
Far more intense
My soul gasps for air
You are my oxygen
In this immense vacuum
Of existential nonsense
I need no defense
Because your love gives me the strength
To take a thousand blows
From all sorts of violence
And your love also shows
That this dim landscape can always glow
And the cabaret lights of this show
We dance together in
Reveal these dreams
That stream from you into me
And all I can do is dream this dream