So tired and fast asleep you lie peacefully by my side
I quietly rest and listen as you breathe
I want so much to take you, into my own sea of dreams
Swim together on the cresting waves of ecstasy

I reach out to touch your cheek, my hand stops in midair
Remembering how tired you really are
So I watch the beating of your pulse hypnotize my eyes
Admiring your sleeping peace from afar

Soon, I give in to temptation; gently brush you with a kiss
A whisper of moist lips upon your brow
Yet you remain asleep even with the warmth my kiss induces
A bit of heaven into your sea of dreams endowed

I see the crystallized plumes of my breath
Circle lazily through the moonlight
As a torrent of images from another place and time
Surrounds my waking spirit with their flight

Desire was a word that had no meaning
Until these images embraced my very essence
Now I am moved like the hypnotic motion of the sea
As I am vividly reminded of your presence

The air is heavy with the scent of oncoming yearning
Enhancing the sweet flavor of the memory of the pleasure
Of your mouth and skin against my own
I can no longer breathe, much less in equal measure

This sweet recollection dissolves all my inhibitions
Sweet modesty flees from my soul
As I recall the unearthly music we made in our love
When your kindred spirit held mine long ago

In the walls of my heart hidden but not silent
I love you from a distance
This love lights up my heart with a glow
With its luminescent existence

Every corner is lit with this glow so profuse
Radiant yet still silently concealed
This love I hold for you from this distance
Shines out but is never revealed

I love you in my silence here from afar
So deeply without any voice
I smile inside, as I know you love me too
And  would be with me if given a choice

Brilliant energy flows from the depths of your eyes
Striking deep chords in my soul
Radiating a sapphire glow which possesses my own
Altering my strength and control

A mesmerizing moment of time stopped in place
Takes hold, as I look deep inside
Your bottomless sea of sapphire delight
Slipping under the skin of my pride

Such shimmering echoes of primitive desire
Waves of crashing release
Captivate my soul when I look in your eyes
As they steal my breath from me

Your sapphire glow has taken control of my soul
As I swim in your bottomless sea
I have no need to rise to the surface for air
As your energy breathes life into me

Lovely fields of vision seen
In all the days of you
Sewn gently in the heart of hearts
With silken threads of blue

Embroidered in the sky by stars
Drifting as to sea
Stitched in love by the hand of time
Forever yours to be

Memories sweet a picture there
Of love I have for you
Held in place by knots of love
Forever to hold true

Framed in love in the finest gold
Caught up in eternity
To stand in halls of love divine
For all the world to see

What calls to you in the loudest voice you have ever heard
Sending waves of tingles down your spine
Lifts your spirit to a realm of heaven here on earth
Rushes all around you in whispers so divine

What can swiftly bring you to your bended knees
Send your spirit soaring through the air
Lift your tender heart to places you have never seen
Strip your precious pride completely bare

What can make you want to change your life’s direction
Look deep inside yourself with honesty
Embrace a life that carries a precious meaning
Open your eyes wide and truly see

Love calls you in the loudest voice you have ever heard
Rushes all around you in whispers so divine
Lifts your spirit to a realm like you have never seen
Sending waves of tingles down your spine

Love will swiftly bring you to your bended knees
Make you set aside your precious pride
Embracing you with a life full of honest meaning
Sweetly changing who you are inside

I send delightful messages in bottles to the one I love
Across a boundless sea that exists only in my mind
Such lovely words I send him every single day
However, my heart wonders if these messages he will find

Tender words of love inscribed by my heart’s pen
So lovingly written in a crimson shade of red
I write them every day and watch them float in the wind
So like my heart, sweetly drifting away

I rest upon the burning sands of a shore I have created
In my yearning heart’s eye so very long ago
And I wait to hear back from the one that I love
Just to know that he loves me so

I want to run in the sunshine, plunge into my sea
Yet, I sit and wait to hear back from my love
And I wait and I wonder if he ever thinks of me
As I give another message in a bottle, a gentle shove

Sighs of great bliss emanate from all of my senses
At the very sight of your hands
Sweet murmurs of memories evoked in a passion
Mesmerizing in haunting command

I am quieted of motion, stopped in existent time
Thrilled to my core of being
With memories of spaces and faraway places
Your hands take my spirit a fleeing

Strength emits from the coursing of lifeblood
Pulsing within your clasp
Holding my heart in suspended anticipation
Inviting the fire of your grasp

My attention is gravitated by the fire in your eyes
A flame, perhaps I could withstand
If not for the murmurs of sweet memories evoked
When my eyes are caressing your hands

You flow like liquid fire of flame
Throughout the soul in me
Rippling gently through my veins
Sweet swirls of ecstasy

The fingertips of hands of steel
So gently brush my heart
So captivating in all their will
To flame the fire they start

A resistance of this gentle flow
Would be futile in its quest
As the heart desires to never go
Or leave that which it loves best

So I breathe you in as silken air
Pressed against my skin
With sighs of sweet release I bare
The secrets held within

Does love take as much as it gives
Or does love always take more
As it holds you captive within its embrace
Until you can’t find yourself anymore

Love can make your heart sing
Then break it right in two
Leave you feeling scattered and empty
Trying to find you

Love can make you forget who you were
All for the one you adore
Carry you so far away from yourself
Alone you forget who you are

With time you will remember
Who you were before
Until love steps in and finds you again
Love always returns for more

There’s a light at the end of my path
I can always see so true
Shining out and calling to me
At the end is You

You stand with open arms
A smile upon your face
My heart sings as it knows
I have found my place

The place where I can be myself
Always feel at home
Your arms I run to find
The place where I belong

Such comfort I have found
Running to your light
Where all my tears are washed away
And my soul feels right

Ever I will run to thee
The place where my heart lives
Peace and love I’ll always find
As my heart to you I give

Such calm has come over my very existence.
Like a sweet low, simmer that travels throughout me.
I cannot even begin to tell you why I feel this way.
I will try in the only way I know of, with words.

My mind and heart feel at rest for the first time in forever.
They seem to have finally come to an agreement.
An agreement to stop the never-ending battle
Between the two of them

I think perhaps the sweet peace I feel, this calmness
Has much to do with the realization I have finally reached.
The realization that the chaotic feelings I have held inside
For so long were never necessary.

I realize that it was I all along that tortured myself.
All of the pain that I put myself through was self-inflicted.
Why do we do this to ourselves?  
What do we think to gain from such punishment?

So now, I rest in sweet peace and my heart smiles inside.
I see that all of the feelings I have for you
Feelings that run deeper than any chasm on this Earth
You have returned all along.

Such a lonesome tune she played one day
Thinking not a soul would hear
But a fine melody of such rare display
  Still fell on angels’ ears

The soulful tune was heard on high
Making crystal tears fall from every eye
Each note was met with woeful sighs
As if all the angels’ hearts were broke inside

On and on without respite she played her tune
Without one single solitary clue
That her lonesome melody need end soon
Before all their hearts she broke in two

Shadows move across the night
Rustling the shades
Watching me from every side
Every move I make

Hearing everything I say
Knowing all I do
The thoughts and dreams inside my head
This their watching too

Why can't they just leave me alone
And visit someone else
Give me peace and quiet here
And leave me to myself

Is there something that they want
Something that they need
Perhaps a message they wish to share
They will whisper when they leave

There is a smoldering fire beneath the coldest ashes
Hidden quite deeply underneath
Which burns uniquely with a vibrant blaze
That few have felt or seen

Your heart is able to feel the glowing warmth
Which your eyes cannot see
As it is able to sift through the coldest ashes
Setting the fire underneath so free

What glorious reward awaits the patient heart
Seeking the vibrant blaze
A remarkable warmth to flood their soul
And hold them close always

Patience is a virtue, which carries a great reward
For the patient heart so true
Is your heart willing to sift through the coldest ashes
To find the fire that will warm you

Smooth and cool as pebbles cast upon the sand
The unique essence of your voice I hear
Echoing through my spirit triumphantly in command
Of every bit of resistance I have near

The deepest pools of heaven are that of which I see
Each time I gaze into your eyes
I find I am drowning in your victorious glance
While stripping myself bare of all my pride

Such sweet anticipation that glows into a flame
The very sight of your hands ignites in me
Evoking melodic recollections of immense pleasure  
If not felt, one would never believe

So heavenly is the beauty that I hear and I see
Yet, that which I love the most stands apart
You are the most magnificent man that I‘ve ever known
But most of all, I love your beautiful heart

Unique we are and yet the same
So different yet alike
Look inside yourself and see
Another person's life

What we feel is our own
But shared by so many others
Look into the eyes of some
And you'll be filled with wonder

If your thinking you're alone
And no one feels like you
That none has ever felt such pain
Look hard, you'll find that it's not true

I love the way you make me smile inside
The magic of your kiss
My heart you touch with your own
Your own I can’t resist

Your touch is that of such surprise
Each one is that of fire
I can’t help but yearn to feel your touch
You are my one desire

I feel you close, as if next to me
When you are nowhere near
Each time I close my eyes and think of you
I can feel you here

You have been broken in so many places
At times right in two
Why is it then that each time you mend
More breakage you pursue

I have glued you together with all of my tears
Thinking perhaps this time you’ll learn
Yet you continue to go out and get hurt
Crying because you get burned

Thinking I could toughen you up a bit
Against you I did conspire
I froze you like a block of ice
In response you jumped right in the fire

Now I don’t  know what to do with you
You aggravate me so
I suppose I’ll just keep fixing you
Until you learn how to say no

I just want to come and hold you
Be with you tonight
I’m not asking you for forever
Forever’s too  long a time

I just want to come and kiss you now
To be in your loving arms
I’m not asking you  for forever
Forever’s too long a time

But what if I can’t hold you
Kiss your sweet smile
Then stay away from you ever
Even for a little while

So perhaps I shouldn’t hold you
Or kiss your sweet smile
As I may want to stay forever
Not just a little while

There is an empty room inside this house
With everything you need
Close your eyes I’ll take you there
Together we can see

The emptiness is a facade
As it’s completely full
What it holds cannot be seen
But has such tremendous pull

There is no chair to sit upon
No pictures on the walls
But as it’s empty have no fear
That you will trip and fall

In this room there is no sound
Nothing stirs at all
But you can hear the most lovely things
Right within these walls

Come with me and take a look
No one but we two
And you’ll discover it’s not empty
As it contains my love for you