When Time Hands Me Leave to Love You

Unfilled dreams visit me
and I pretend
thundering pain does not touch my soul
when I can't hear you say,
“I love you”
before I lay me down to sleep.
Still, I wonder
if I called out on the coldest night
would I hear nothing
but silence
inside the dreams
I keep.  

In the morning hours
I write your name
in the air
with a hand of power,
creating an image
of  love's fire
that can never be lost
in thought.  
A delightful understanding
becomes a sensation of living
with the eyes of my heart
wrapped around the words
I have sought.

My mind sings our story
even when I am alone.
It shouts
from an ocean
of heaven
with a tune swinging  
to the countless beat
of our future need.
It paints our past
with long strokes of feeling
outside of  all the years
that were hidden
by a shadow's greed.

Here I stand as I am
with an invitation
circling my heart
creating a place
for you to be
when time hands me leave
to love you
with every breath
I breathe.  
Although, I may not hear the words
from your lips
the eyes of my heart
hear you speak
with ears........
that see.

Author's Note

*Artist Marta Dahlig

Reviews

[quinfinn]

"here i stand as i am with an invitation circling my heart creating a place for you to be when time hands me leave to love you with every breath i breathe"....Neva, how is it that you always speak to me in a language i believed only myself to understand? it is true, that connection you spoke of, and i think it is deeply rooted in our mutual love of verse. this is pure and exquisite.

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Q, for finding one of my olders one's I had put in the back of my mind. XX

[Danielle]

Lovely sensual words!

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Shia :)

[Tarry Franck]

Stunning, breathtaking - a lovely piece :)

[Ruth]

Intuition always works better than physical attuning :)
♥

[KAREN]

Breathtaking!!!! The reader can feel each word they read!
100/100

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

SIGH! this was another heart warming peice!

[N]

I always feel like somebody is singing me a lullaby when I read your poems. They fit so effortlessly and flow so smoothly, no matter what the mood of the poem is I feel relaxed.

[Coyote Poetry]

Artwork and words took me to a better place. Your poetry is like sweet whispers. I need to write some poetry of love. Good for the soul to remember there is good in our world. Thank you for the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[ba_mcfarlane]

I love the cadence to be found in this piece. And, as always, the phrasing is flawless and powerful and moving. Kudos!

[MOON]

Sometimes love is beyond the mental and the pysical, its deep in the soul beyond time and space and it speaks. Lovely poignant write.