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

[lee von cleef]

Ok, hearts, time ,living beyond belief, a heart felt poem,prayer, never fails,never leaves,never forgets, you can not defeat a prayer like this. old line "Prayer gives wings to the soul" and so does your poem.

[Mark]

"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. "

Breath taking words. To be so entwined with someone else would be so powerful, so fulfilling. Damn the consequences :)

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Mark :)