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I think I'll make this a poetry blog ... here's one I wrote last month.

My eyes want to kiss your face.
My lips want to whisper sweet nothings
In your direction, soft and impassioned
Prayers of gratitude,
Each word sinking in
Deeply.
Only you understand how pain and love
Intermingle,
At once hard and soft,
Sweet and blazing.
My heart walks naked
Across glowing hot coals
And your guitar sings a ghost-song,
A siren-song,
As I float to you above the fire.

(4-14-2011)

This is the defining moment --
Not yesterday, not one week ago,
Not the year before this when I first
Fell to my knees.
You take all that I offer
And demand more
From a vessel that is nearly dry.
I try to run,
But my feet are like lead
And the flames from the pit of you
Lap and curl at my toes.
I seek love,
And your mastery over me;
Yet I flinch and cower
Even as you give those things
That I breathlessly desire.
Strip my branches bare,
Let the thunder roll over me
And the rain pour down in torrents.
Wash me clean,
Purge this enemy pain from my
Body and soul
As only you can.

(May 6, 2011)