08-09-2014, 08:38 AM
You need not beg for what I give you freely. Try to recall
the vow we made; though in the past, it's where we now both live.
Of course I'll visit you, my love; for when we meet you smile and all
the world is lit by glimmered recognition. To see you give
a glance my way, then say my name, your name for me,
is better than a thousand wishes granted on a dark, stark day;
better than an ice-melt stream in this cruel desert destiny;
better than one precious breath when death has looked the other way;
better than the hiding hope that lives in sleep but dies each dawn.
Yet but for you, why must I wake? Can we not close our eyes and fall
together down soft steps of time, back to the place where love was born...
if you remember, say my name, in whispers, yes, and I will call
you by my special name for you--just let me think, I know it well--
please do not cry, it hurts too much, my blue-eyed bird, my Isabelle.
tectak
2014
the vow we made; though in the past, it's where we now both live.
Of course I'll visit you, my love; for when we meet you smile and all
the world is lit by glimmered recognition. To see you give
a glance my way, then say my name, your name for me,
is better than a thousand wishes granted on a dark, stark day;
better than an ice-melt stream in this cruel desert destiny;
better than one precious breath when death has looked the other way;
better than the hiding hope that lives in sleep but dies each dawn.
Yet but for you, why must I wake? Can we not close our eyes and fall
together down soft steps of time, back to the place where love was born...
if you remember, say my name, in whispers, yes, and I will call
you by my special name for you--just let me think, I know it well--
please do not cry, it hurts too much, my blue-eyed bird, my Isabelle.
tectak
2014