I hope, I don't fall in love with you...

Love can make us feel alive and love can kill our kindness... June poetry twenty-one.

I hope, I don't fall in love with you.

I found her sitting alone on the sand at the Seaside beach. You held your whiskey tightly and you wanted to be alone. I knew your face. You read poetry ugliness of love, the ugliness of life at the Tuesday poetry reading at the coffee shop in Monterey. I knew, sometimes people need to be left alone.

I wrote a poem for her.

"I hope you don't fall in love with me...

I learn love can be the war of the heart,

where we rarely can win in.

Once love was so damn sweet,

warm and tasty kisses, a blessing.

Once the midnight embrace. So kind and needed.

Please don't fall in love with me dear Delia.

Delia, Delia. Beautiful Delia.

I love the sin, I love the gin and I love the feel of skin against my skin.

Today dear poet,

I love the silence and I love the sea.

I do pray to the Goddess of the sea, I do pray to the dancing moon.

Please make me brave.

Please allow me to know laughter and be able to sing to the stars above.

Love is a blessing and love will teach us tears.

Dear Delia. Please smile for me.

Let's dance for the Sea Goddess. Maybe we can find laughter again."

I went to her and I gave her the poem and I walked to the sea. I took off my shoes and

I drank some whiskey. I danced with the waves, allowing the coldness of the sea.

To awake me up.

I feel someone near. Dear Delia touched my arm, with soft tears falling. She asked me. Johnnie, Johnnie.

Will you read poetry to me and will you hold my hands? Will you tell me, I will be okay?

I brought her closer and I told her. All of us are walking on a thread of hope. We can drink our whiskey,

pray to the the dancing moon. Maybe find a lost smile? Maybe find our missing laughter?

She took my hands and we swirl into a dance with the sea. She looked into my eyes and she whispered. 

Please be kind to me.

Coyote

Author's Note

Thank you for reading.

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

OH MY....the romance in your words is overwhelming. You want to protect her from the ugliness of the world. You want to dance with her on the shoreline and feel the ocean kiss your feet. Of course you would poetry to her and promise to be kind. Your poetry is a pleasure to read. Lydi**

[Coyote Poetry]

Hello dear Lydia and we need more friends. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Chris Shaw]

'please be kind to me' she says. This sounds like a lady who has been badly hurt in love and is fearful of loving again. Laughter and smiles is a sure way to capture a heart. Filled with romance and with the backwash of moonlight and ocean, how lovely is the setting. Always good to read you Coyote.

Chris

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Chris. I need a few years near the sea. I appreciate the comment.

[Melinda McQueen]

Quite the poem within a poem.
Romance in the air.
Nicely penned.

[Coyote Poetry]

We do need romance dear Melinda. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I relate to this a bit differently...Hoping to not fall in love again with the same person.
the eyes, so expressive...
so expressive...
and she seemed to be saying...."please be kind to me"
as you express here.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Jacob. Love is dancing on dangerous ground.