December 23 When you say “I love you,” it doesn’t surprise me at all.Of course you love me.It’s that warm and happy feeling of the comfort of old friends,Who know who you were andLike who you’ve become. You love me. But then suddenly and unexpectedly you say you’ve fallen in love with me.Like you’ve been…
December 23 I am one of those peopleThe unlucky, sad peopleThe ones who’ve never been in love.Not with a man who loved me.Not with a man who wanted more for me than for himself.Not with a man who deserves so much more than I have to give. I am one of those peopleThe lucky people,…
December 23 I just fell in love today. Like I do everyday. When I opened my eyes, and thought of you. Love is not a state of being, it’s becoming. Every day a little closer, just a little more. I am one of those peopleThe lucky people, full of joyThe ones who just fell in…
Dec 20, 2018 Your soul sings to meAcross the milesNot your compassion But your confession Of a man I never knewUntold deedsYour guilt, regretWash over meAn outward signOf inner graceUnrealized
December 16 I can’t protect myself from youHiding inside my heartWhere I’ve no armor or boundariesLost in my own feelingsBefore I knew that it could hurtBefore I knew that men would lieThere you are.Able to appear wherever you’d like inside my soul.Closer to me than anyone.My best friendMy better selfSeeing what I needBetter than I…
December 14 “My lover”Is inaccurate“Boyfriend”a teen idol.“My boo”Is ridiculous“The man I love”unrequited. “Best friend”Understates it“Soulmate”Seen as hyperbole“Darling”Too old-fashioned“Partner”Could be Stephanie Word choice is importantTo capture who you are.Offered options fall quite flat-An unseen wishing star. “The man I’m waiting for”Like a soldierGone off to warGetting letters from his girlFull of romance and pure joy Waiting…
December 9 I’d like to steal words from Byron, Lermontov, Wordsworth, Longfellow,Because I’m certain they’ve written how I feel about you.But they couldn’t have.No one has ever captured how I feel today.No woman has ever loved a man before.I’m certain of it.And if they had, they couldn’t have written the perfect wordsSo overwhelmed by this…
December 9 I remember what it feels when you touch me.Just holding your hand of course is like a baffled comforter in a cold room.And when you console me to make it all better arms around me in your kitchen, so perfect that I can’t be so close to you. Not then. It takes my…
December 8 “And furthermore,” said the Walrus. “Contrariwise,” said the carpenter. “Regardless,” said the White Rabbit. “It is what it is,” said Alice Lewis Carroll
December 7 If I drive the getaway carWill I get to stay at the hideout?We’d have to lay low alone,With no one aroundAnd no place to go.How could we find a wayTo spend our time. If I stay at the hideoutWill I get to meetup at the rendezvous?Or will I raise suspicion with my sunlit…