Mr. Newton and Einstein can keep it.
So far I’m handling it all on my own.
Unlike Isaac who’d under a tree sit,
I don’t need gravity to keep me down.

They say when you’re happy you’re flying high.
But that must mean we’re destined for sadness
Because no human can stay in the sky.
While gravity just adds to the madness.

Pain and suffering from separation
When true love should attract us together.
And it’s gravity’s sole occupation
To pull two bodies closer together.

A cruel scientific duality,
With no power over my massive heart.
I have got no use for you, gravity.
When it seems I’m always falling apart.

I love you
                You know that
                        When I’m perfect
                        And everything I do
                        Is just right
                 But when mistakes happen
                         I’ll do things wrong
                        And you might not even know
                        And I’ll be sorry
I’ll still love you
                 You might not feel safe
                        When I was wrong
                        And not the man
                        You thought I was
                I’ll want to comfort you
                        I’ll try to rise up
                       And be the lover
                       You deserve
I’ll always love you
                Forgiveness might be hard
                        And I’ll fall
                        On my knees
                        Seeking you
                 But I’ll need your compassion
                        Because I would
                        Never intend
                        To hurt you.
Because I love you.

Feels like a cloud is at rest in my palm,
A softness so light I can’t understand,
Applied to skin but my soul’s healing balm,
You fix what broke me when I hold your hand.

Your fingers transmit feeling like a spell,
With energy felt deep within my skin,
Your lightness of touch makes everything well,
Held in my hand but my heart’s where it’s in.

With love and with grace you gave it to me,
To hold and caress to return your love,
In hand and in love is how we shall be,
Hold fast each dream that we ever dreamt of.

Don’t run from love against which you rebelled,
You never before let your hand be held.

The L word is so powerful
A response involuntary
The opposite of sorrowful
It’s synonymous with merry.

The L word draws defenses down
It’s a visceral connection.
The antidote to ev’ry frown,
It defies any inspection.

The L word comes as a surprise
Result of the unexpected,
There’s no need to apologize
For how others are affected.

The L word is a mystery,
But you’re always happy after.
Nothing else makes you feel as free
As uncontrollable Laughter.

If you ask me how deep a love should be
Don’t seek an answer quantitatively.
Love’s to be measured qualitatively,
Except that I love you infinitely.

If each love is its own variety,
Which one is the one between you and me?
Is it type one or type one hundred three?
My love for you is love infinity.

If you ask how much love I give to thee
For fear love might exceed capacity,
Man never loves to his ability.
Except me—I love you infinitely.

If you need me to love descriptively,
Each day I love you more infinitely,
I need new numbers mathematically,
For I love you more than infinity.

If you were feeling like it was so right,
Then you most probably ignored the wrong.
If you have never had to have a fight,
Then you kept anger in to get along.

If you have never cried like this before,
Then you had never opened up your heart.
If you think none will love you anymore,
Then you should know that now is when you start.

If you’re alone unable to explain,
Then you are stuck in someone else’s head.
If you think that despair is part of pain,
Then you should love somebody good instead.

The man you loved before was fraudulent.
A worthy man won’t hurt you with intent.

All you ever have to do
Is rest your head
On my shoulder,
On my chest.

And let me breathe in your love,
Adoring you,
Watching you sleep,
All night long.

All you ever have to do
Is just let me
Be the one who
Gives you peace.

And let me breathe in your love,
Protecting you,
Holding you close,
To my heart.

All you ever have to do
Is fall asleep,
Here beside me,
Ev'ry night.

And let me breathe in your love,
And kiss your head,
Until your dreams
All come true.

If my eyelids were a canvas
Upon which I could paint your smile,
I'd never open them again,
I'd sleep forever and a while.

If I could see in every cloud,
The gentleness of your embrace,
I'd leap from the tallest building,
And try to float away in space.

If the sparkle of each snowflake
Shined like the glimmer in your eyes,
I'd get buried in a blizzard
Until my frostbitten demise.

If I could find a piece of cloth
To hold me close the way you do,
I'd have to mummify myself
So I'd be always held by you.

If there were ever such a mind
In which you were its only thought,
I don't have to imagine it.
That's just what loving you has brought.

It makes change irreversible,
It’s powerful and terrible,
It moves a person’s soul to act,
Not even strength is left intact.

It forces unexamined fears,
It’s the most common cause of tears,
Once it’s alive can’t be undone,
Unstoppable once it’s begun.

You can’t resist when it arrives,
You only hope that hope survives,
In its wake are broken pieces,
We can’t avoid its caprices.

A weapon not to be deployed,
But one that no one can avoid,
To make a change you can’t undo,
Risk telling someone “I love you.”

I’m sorry this is
How it has to be
It hurts just to say
It’s not you it’s me.

I know you can’t see
A reason to end
But how I’m feeling
I can’t be your friend.

It’s wholly my choice
You are not to blame
It is not your fault
You don’t feel the same.

I’m stopped dead by hope
Each day I live through
That you’ll feel in love
Like I am with you

I did not know when
I made you my friend
That I’d fall in love
And make this the end.

I feel so guilty
I’ve tried to be true
Now I’m selfishly
Abandoning you

Know that I love you
Though you feel betrayed
I need to find peace
From this mess I made.

I’ll fall out of love
Or move on some way
And I just hope you
Forgive me someday.

With what fingers have I caressed your skin?
With whose open arms have I let you in?
What lips did I gently press to your cheek?
With what eyes beheld the beauty I seek?

What heart beats now next to yours in your chest?
What arms pull you close when I lie to rest?
What nose inhales the essence of your scent?
What eyes reflect what the look in yours meant?

What hair stands on end when it feels your touch?
What spine feels chills from loving so much?
With what ears do I hear your every word?
What tears of joy have made your image blurred?

Who is this man who you’ve so affected?
Whose whole body has been redirected?
The first time you kissed me is when I knew—
I’ve lost control of my body to you.

I keep trying to forget you
As impossible as it seems
But from the first time I met you
You’ve been a fixture in my dreams.

There’s no moment when I see you
I don’t pretend we’re together
Or you felt the same for me too
That your love was “when” not “whether.”

Each time I look into your eyes
I see so much love reflected
But it’s all mine I realize
And I come away rejected.

Although you effortlessly smile
To draw in my adoration
We’re separated by a mile
Of futile anticipation.

I’m going to keep loving you
From first sight until forever
I’ve tried to stop and wanted to
Even though you’ve told me “Never.”

The moment came quite suddenly,
Belied by how momentously,
I let your soul inhabit me,
When I first knew that you got me.

No warning what would come to be,
It came so unexpectedly,
I let you give yourself to me,
Somehow I knew that you got me.

We met and I had certainty,
But how is still a mystery,
That I would let you close to me,
I knew someday that you’d get me.

I gave you my love instantly,
No fear you’d turn your back on me,
I let you change eternity,
Because I knew that you got me.

We’re an improbability,
We speak together inwardly,
Communicating silently,
That I got you and you got me.

An end to war
The world is free
All sickness ends
The blind can see
These hopes have less
Futility
Than hope you’d fall
In love with me.

To never sin
To never die
Go back in time
To learn to fly
Those hopes can’t match
Futility
Of hope you’d fall
In love with me

To hold the stars
To swim on land
To outrun light
Count grains of sand
Not even their
Futility
Match hope you’d fall
In love with me.

If I had one
Ability
I’d use all my
Capacity
But it would be
Futility
You’ll never fall
In love with me.

Felt swaddled like a newborn child,
Slept peacefully in dreamy bliss.
Those were the nights before you smiled.
Can’t sleep without your goodnight kiss.

My pillow perfect for my head,
Could fall asleep so easily.
Now roll back and forth ‘cross my bed,
Can’t sleep without you next to me.

My empty bed would hold my dreams,
My silent slumber had no fear.
But you, my love, are real it seems,
I lie awake if you’re not here.

Could close my eyes just ‘ere the dawn,
And feel refreshed throughout the day.
But dusk to sunrise with you gone,
Restless longing won’t go away.

I used to sleep below the sun,
Despite the light down from above.
Though darkness needs another one,
I’ve traded sleep for all your love.

She looks at me enchanting with her eyes,
Oblivious to how she stirs my heart.
The passion she creates is her surprise
As is the sorrow felt when she departs.

She laughs and I long to be by her side,
Each story makes me blush with puppy love,
Is she aware of how I feel inside?
She occupies each thought I’m thinking of.

To hear her voice transports to fantasy,
Where love could never be as real as this.
Without her love I can’t live happily,
When she’s away I dream about her kiss.

What I mean to her there’s no need to speak,
While I feel that together we’re unique.