love poems for my life

love poems for my life:

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Dreams do come true, but only when

They make it through despair,

Limping into everyday

Transformed beyond repair.

No dream would be a dream if it

Could pass for something real,

Nor would we sail for paradise

Would it its shoals conceal.

So it is with love: the dream

Long longed for, now possessed,

Must be a dream no longer, but

An emperor undressed.

Stark naked it must come to us

In unaccustomed shame,

And we must take it in our arms

And love it all the same.

And we must love love as it is

That dreams might still come true,

Mangled into miracles

To make our lives anew.

 

 

" love poems for my life"

EVERYTHING I’VE DONE,

I’VE DONE

Everything I’ve done, I’ve done

Only for your love.

Everything I am, I am

In hopes your heart will move.

I know that you love someone else,

But while you’re away,

I’ll loveyou just as though our love

Would last till you are grey.

Till you and I are grey, my love,

And all our days are done,

I’ll loveyou just as I do now;

Your heart’s my only home.

love poems for my life

HOLD ME TO YOUR

WILLING HEART

Hold me to your willing heart

And let me—help me—weep

That I of need might fall apart

And then at last might sleep.

Let the truth slice into me

That I might finally bleed

And purge myself of agony

I cannot now concede.

For I have bound myself in light

That I might live in joy,

And cannot—will not—let the night

My bonds of lovedestroy.

And yet I know if I would gain

The peace for which I pray,

I must allow the floods of pain

To wash my loveaway

love poems for my life

HOW CAN I KNOW SO

SURELY THAT I’LL LOVE YOU

How can I know so surely that I’ll love you

No matter what the future has in store?

Time is like a cave in which our torches

Show only the circumference of our minds.

But love is will far more than it is passion,

Though passion may at first sustain the will.

One chooses love the way one chooses faith

Because that is the way that heaven lies.

My love for you is vaster than the ocean,

More rich in loveliness than coral seas.

I would no more relinquish it than let go

Willingly the precious gift of life.

 

love poems for my life

HOW DID I LOSE YOUR

BABY BLUE EYES

How did I lose your baby blue eyes

And the smile that lit up my sky?

What did I say that sent you away?

Can somebody tell me why?

Sometimes we move away from the flow

And find ourselves lost and alone.

What turn did I miss after some kiss

That told me what I should have known?

How did you get so far from my heart

Without my becoming aware?

What did you see deep inside me

That I never knew was there?

We drive in the darkness down strange empty roads

Into sudden and unforeseen pain.

We think that we choose, but after we lose,

We see that we’ve done it again.

love poems for my life

I AM AFRAID TO LOVE,

AND YET I LOVEYOU

I am afraid to love, and yet I love you.

My fear is like a wall I walk right through.

The wall is there, and yet it doesn’t stop me.

I need it still, and yet I still need you.

I know someday we will be in a field

Surrounded by the blessing of the sky.

I’ll dance with all the freedom of pure joy,

Needing you without a reason why.

But now I’m still afraid that I might lose you,

That you might not accept my desperate need.

You make me laugh and cry and be completely.

You are the flower, I the slender reed.