Real Love

[ficosdarkness]

I have dreamed in the darkness of the night, of how true love would actually feel,
but in the brutal light of the day, I never experienced a love that was real.
In my dreams that were set in the warm summer dusk, true love would capture me,
but once I was caught, I'd awake from my dream and true love would just set me free.
You saw straight past the white noise in my dreams and heard the sound of my silent cries.
You opened my heart with the love in your own and that's how you opened my eye's.
The other loves in my life, that had left me alone, I saw clearly, they were'nt meant to be,
because your love's the only love that I've known, that my heart could rightly see.
No more dreaming of love, in the dark of the night, because we walk in the sun, side by side.
No more shame for love's lost, my silent cries have all stopped and I hold my head high with pride.
I'll take the rest of my time, by day or by night, readily showing you how I feel.
My dream's have come true, with no need to fight, because the love that we share, it is real.

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I have dreamed in the darkness of the night, of how true love would actually feel,
but in the brutal light of the day, I never experienced a love that was real.
In my dreams that were set in the warm summer dusk, true love would capture me,
but once I was caught, I'd awake from my dream and true love would just set me free.
You saw straight past the white noise in my dreams and heard the sound of my silent cries.
You opened my heart with the love in your own and that's how you opened my eye's.
The other loves in my life, that had left me alone, I saw clearly, they were'nt meant to be,
because your love's the only love that I've known, that my heart could rightly see.
No more dreaming of love, in the dark of the night, because we walk in the sun, side by side.
No more shame for love's lost, my silent cries have all stopped and I hold my head high with pride.
I'll take the rest of my time, by day or by night, readily showing you how I feel.
My dream's have come true, with no need to fight, because the love that we share, it is real.

Ln 8 ...,"that my heart could rightly see." This is the way that it flowed for me and I just couldn't change it, although it may be awkward to the reader. Is this in bad form??
fd

Thank you, Billy. You have given me things to consider that I have not and I agree with the "paraphrase" that you referred to. Love is a word (among other's) that is incredibly over used and over rated. My poem in not original at all it's just how it came to me. Thank you for giving it a read..., moving forward