The cave

Where is love?

It is said that love dwells in the heart of man

that only a lady truly fitting

can seize the light within, 

caressing with her hair his face in wind

and finding his heart beneath the shifting sands

she is the clear gaze in his stormy gale

the whispers that cuts across all the noise

to where the silence only goes to greet and say goodbye

all in the same breath;

A lighter kiss has not been felt

than the passing of her shadow

the fine silver of her gaze 

has told me of future love 

If I were to hide my heart and the love within

across the desert and mines deep

wrapped in gauze and locked inside 

my pyramid scheme to keep you out

Then you were the winds of change

that lured me, and pursued me

across the ocean, 

always the wind in my sails

and I thought I was running away

you were still there, 

your spirit holding my heart still

Love's desperate current still swirls

and eddies in the pools of your eyes

a rapid then calm upon the stormy lake

you have poke your finger

through my mirror

of which I thought was perfectly reflective

thinking about myself that I was who 

I made myself out to be.

Your finger searching closer, ever so closer

to my heart, to my center

Fearful trepidation! 

Why all this fear, as it sets in like mortar

I freeze upon all that I know is wrong with me

and as a carcass cannot let go 

with my past.

You offered me your future

an offering that could even appease

Hades' rage and Poseidon's storm

I, withered with darkened brow

battered and tired from own self-inflictions

Presented myself as the best I could offer,

a measly crumb.

And said, are you sure?

You still said yes.

Here I write my thanks to you

oh lovely one,

I cannot help but notice that I have 

started to change

to see myself as a man that can be

and should be loved 

Restored into his rightful post

that prior he vacated placantly 

I can only thank your persistance

your lack of tact

all your stormy emotions

for you truly are the ocean 

in my world, 

you fill me and without you all life inside

would vanish.

Author's Note

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