Palpitations in Love

Years Later

So much has changed for us
Together, simultaneously, and individually
Stepping softly into the worlds sprawl
Ambitious, courageous, and no longer so small.
You've grown to astounding heights
Rapidly growing, and dreaming, and achieving
Fabricating ripples as you advance
I'm awestruck, dazed, and in a trance.
As you dance around my head
Fluid, and delicate, and precisely planned
You never fail to kick my fire
Embers, and ash, and emotions thrust higher.
Years later I still love and care
Hopeful, and hopeless, just kind of hangin in there
I linger right where you left me babe
Time, and change, and adaptions, and pain.
Years later you still have that power
Strong, concise, and crystal fucking clear
Pictures alone imprudently pluck my heartstrings
Feel the tug as it burns and shines and stings.
Still I wouldn't trade it for any possession
No money, or power, or idolization the like
There's nothing like your lasting heatwave
The desire, the passion, the love I crave.

It's yours.
It always will be

For weeks, for months, for years it's been that way
Spare me, save me, give me reason to cling
Look me in the eyes as I break
My hands, my heart, my soul
All yours to take.
But you'll plunge your sharpened honied tongue into my chest
Have me bleed, and beg, and flail, and resist
As you tell me you don't love me anymore
And my blood, and emotions, and mind run amiss.
Maybe the way you care has changed
Different love, different stress, different days
Your gentle kind love is what I seek
I'll look for it in oceans, and in fields, and on peaks.
For you've got me loving shadows of you
They whisper, they dance, leading, trailing
Galavanting all around me tonight
Although you've gone and departed, left, out of sight.
Years from now it'll be the same
Same wanting, same starving, same half hearted empty claim
That once we had loved each other
The grief, the heartache, my bed ridden mutter.
Years later I hope you'll be around
My city, my heart, my town, you'll always be welcome here
It's you that brings it out of me
The infernos, the tundras, the frightful hurricanes from the sea.
A longing for your love to grace my soul
To hold me, to want me, to have me feel alive
It's all I could ever ask for
So be assured, be affirmed, be positive, be sure.

I'm yours.
I always will be.