Lydia Cooper

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

I imagine your voice waking me up

On cold mornings.

I imagine seeing you face come hazily into focus

As the suns shines its sweet rays on our skin.

I imagine you pushing the hair from around my lips

And kissing me inhaling every scent.

I imagine feeling you smile

Embrace me;

And I smile too.

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

Seasons

You make me feel like early winter mornings

When I refuse to get out of bed

Because it keeps me warmer than you ever will.

You remind me of hot summer nights

When I wake up from nightmares;

Cold sweat dripping down my face.

You look like springtime

They way you bloom and glow when nobody is looking.

You remind me of fall

Beautiful and fragile

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

Desire

Will I ever get what I want?

Or am I doomed to drown

In my ever growing desires?

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

The muse

Oh how I wish to be a reason for

Syntax and diction.

A reason for brushstrokes

And pen marks.

I’d love to be the reason for dreams

In the days or the nights.

An inspiration, an idea.

A muse.

I want to be the reason

You pour your heart onto paper

And blush with truth.

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

Wintertime

The wintertime just feels like

Love.

Cold lips and fingertips

Naked. Pressed against each other

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

Distance

What is distance,

But a plane ride

Or an 11 hour drive to the mountainside.

What is distance?

But miles and state lines,

And sunset and sunrise.

What is distance,

But watching loved ones come and go.

What is distance,

But something you can’t feel or touch;

You can write it and hear it.

Isn’t that good enough?

Lydia Cooper Oct 2012

The dream girl

I’m the dream girl,

But never the reality.

I’m girl that everyone wants,

But not what is needed.

Never the first choice

Rather, the second

Or third

Or the alternate

The back up plan.

How I long to be chase, to be craved.

To truly be desire.

To be someones one and only.

God, to be someones something;

Their everything.

To be a sure thing not a maybe.

I ache to find home in a heart

And leave no space unfilled.