Love Drenches Me

store room lilacs 

like rain in a morning dream 

halfway home 

love drenches me

splashing through puddles

hands held tight

we get caught in a warm, 

wet deluge

i drink your love and become

intoxicated

as i watch the 

sunlight erase

the dark and 

the gray

the dark and the gray

where i owned

nothing

where i walked the 

empty streets of

objects

listened to lifeless souls

in empty rooms 

full of ashes

where answers only existed

in storm drain exits

lived there until your

eyes met mine

then, like sunlight, your love 

walked through a half

opened window

touched me like light touches 

store room lilacs sitting in a 

pulled 

out drawer

their smell climbs up to your 

lips to kiss, to seek me

they caress

they enfold

so intimate your hand upon my chest,

my heart, 

so intimate that when I fall asleep your 

eyes close

i love you.

Copyright © 01/05/2013 Barbara Sutton and Lance Sheridan