Safe love
is not a real love
the kind you grab and hold
that fits the perfect mold
or so you think
but when you get to the brink
of what safe love
is
and does
and acts
and exists
you realize it really is
false
an idea built up
to be destroyed
manipulated
and toyed
till each partner changes
to meet the other
and in doing so smother
and fold
squishing the mold
till a blob
they blend
no thank you, my friend
i will take daring love
pursued by a passionate few
with two
that do what others dare not do
like talk
and laugh
and point and play
walk together through every day
enjoying it more
knowing nothing in store
but really knowing you
that's what daring lovers do
and Lord, that's what I'm getting into with you
isn't it? my heart beats for this
and I would be remiss
to sell out for safety
when our world is so big
and you want us to take a step so small
but that will raise us so tall
is that love or career
or am I even near?
I know that you hear, and see, and feel
and my heart you continually heal
but hold me tonight, please do
because I need to be close to you.
//
Desperately
tenderly wanting
the thing that has been haunting
that love so far eschewed
in a request from you
reminders drip
and drop
with a plop
on my lap
on my head
and in my ear
and my heart
there is no place to start
and in that
desperation grows
but you remind me that I know
you
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