Restless night now face the day
Cue the master puppeteer

Sleepless night breaks to dawn of exhaustion, still I rise.
The burdens of pain lock my feet to the ground.
Cowering and cloaked in a robe of sadness.
Deep breath.
Visions of your eyes in my head show reflection of myself, a glimmer of beauty.
I shed the layers of weighted grey.
Hands reaching down with all my strength, pull one foot at a time out of the boots muddied by my tears and trodden soil.
I stand tall, shoulders back.
Hesitant to move I close my eyes,
back to the reflection of yours.
New found courage conjured by your unconditional love.
Exhale.
I step forward wearing hope.

Amazing
Beautiful
Cravings
Desire
Ecstacy
Fantasies
Glistening
He­arts
I
Juxtapose
Knowing
Love
Missing
Now
Only
Passions
Quench
Ra­ging
Souls
Teasingly
Utter
Verbomanias
With
Xenomorphic
Yearning
­Zealousness

Hesitated seconds of breath with lips barely touching. Breathing in as they collide with passionate exchange.
Tongues explore and articulate wordless desire.
Fingertips trace from behind the ear, down the neck...one finger added at a time as they run along supple flesh to the collarbone,   hand making full contact to the chest, finding the beat of pounding heart.
Another hand crawls from waist to shoulder,  up along carotid with synchronizing beats of the heart, up into hair where fingers spread and grasp with intentioned pull.
And so it the challenge shall begin...
Though it seems we both win.

In your eyes I found myself home.
You stoked the fire, relit my strength.
Soul reborn by the warmth, brandished on my arm a new gauntlet of courage.

Mere seconds later I was pummeled into the throes of war, fighting self fray.
You stood behind me, giving me armour forged from pain and love.

Without you, I'd be lain weak in loss.
Yet I rise from the darkness...
Heart replenished and wearing hope.