Thomas

You touch my face
and I feel all the promises of your love
Even as my heart acknowledges that each and every one
Will be broken
Still I am seduced

To be here with you
And to be possessed by you
Even only for a while
Is worth any heartache I shall endure

Without words
we sit side by side
And I know that you are my one true match

I feel you
deep inside my soul
in a place that has no need for superficial promises

And though my eyes will weep
And my body will be defeated
during the long lonely nights without you
I accept the risk of a love so strong
and pure
as to be the only promise of truth
in a world that has no words to express

The time I spend with you shall be an eternity together
and a memory of forever
when forever is only a word
which can never describe what exists between me and you

Although we can not change
the way things have to be
We can cherish today, and tomorrow
and the days we have until our feeble promises fall short

And still we shall both know
that to love without restraint
is to never be hurt

But to be whole

© zayde
July 5, 1999