When I sit here writing, thinking

Of one I love,

I wish

I could be over the sea

By her side.

I wish

I could fly like a bird.

I could hide

In a tree,

And watch over her in the day,

And slip to her side in the cold, cold night.

She could smooth my feathers

And hold me

To her breast.

I wish.

I Wish……………

The eternity of waiting, waiting.

The void of an empty bed.

The stillness of the air, broken

Only by the gentle rustle

Of a leaf

Falling

From the Gardenia bush.

At night, occasionally the spatter spatter of rain

As the evening shower passes by

With a flurry of turbulence.

A handful now of leaves

Dance

In their cyclic vortex, hand in hand,

Then flutter sadly to the ground.

The house is sad,

It awaits you as I await you,

Sad.

Received a note from you tonight

About the sex act, if I'm right.

Seems that after a long miss

A man comes after just one kiss.

But woman climbs to highest towers

After hours and hours and hours.

So, my darling, tell me more,

(I think I've heard this tale before).

Is It true that with your ways.

It'll take not hours, but days and days?

Anyway, it'll be fun finding out.

Beloved,

Far over the sea,

Whisper tonight in your sleep

That you love me.

Whisper

My name.

I will hear, and will be whispering

"Carol".

I wrote a poem to you this morning,

And the words flowed out my love

Like a river in spate.

Now I find myself sitting,

Just thinking of my love.

The words no longer flow, but trickle

Like a little stream.

My love is there,

Inside my heart, my body,

Like a huge glacier, waiting to burst

Once more into a flood

When the like warming sun, your 1ove

Shines down.

'Tis cold tonight because you are afar,

And though only a mile or two,

It seems like the distance to the sun.

In a few short hours of eternity

I will be lying by your side,

By my love.

Would it were for Eternity

Eternity to warm my heart.

I've tried all arguments to try to change

Your mind.

My greatest argument is our love,

Which you will not deny exists.

My mind and body are now exhausted,

Only my heart still burns

With a fire equal to a million suns.

And while that fire forever burns,

So will it day to day give strength

Unto my mind and body.

I will fight on for you, my love.

I will fight, and fight and fight.

I will fight with that inexhaustible supply

Of energy

That comes from my heart.

I will fight until Eternity

To win you, my only love.

Maybe at times you curse me

For being such a persistent bastard.

I am so, only because I love you,

Because you took my heart.

You captured it and made it your's,

And now, like an empty glassy

You cast it aside

Having sipped a fresh and fragrant drink

From a new glass.

Drink your drink, but be careful,

For you know not what it contains.

Then come afresh and top me up,

And linger.

For my drink has proved good to you over the years.

But if you must try your new drink

I ask but one or two small things.

For the sake of God, your children, you and I

Don't move out of our small earthly paradise.

Make some concession.

I realise It is probably

One of the greatest decisions of your life,

You know that I will fight

To keep you, my love.

You know

That I will take your children out,

And bring them to our home.

You know

That I love them as I love you.

You know

That you loved me once when my cup was full,

That you love me still,

But your love is now split

Between two.

Darling, our love has been proved.

How can you throw it away?

You have tasted your new wine,

You have drunk mine,

While new wines come and go

Mine will. always be here.

Don't mix your drinks,

Stick to the one you know.

The trickle of words grows smaller,

And I must retire into my lonely bed,

I leave you with the thoughts that are

Going through my mind, as I retire

And close my eyes.

That I Love You.

That

     I

           Love

                You.

I Dreamed

I dreamed, as children often do,

Of journeying to a distant star.

And never thought it possible

In so short a life,

Until, Carol

You came along and loved me.

Then those fantastic seconds

Expanded in a blaze of colour

And my Soul blasted off from Earth

Into a journey through the Universe,

To return after an ecstatic Eternity

To the arms of my beloved.

Head on honey sweet breast

I lie

Happy

With you.