nathan.seeking

With my hands I held you, I touched you and loved you.
My hands are callused from very hard work
to provide clothing, shelter, transportation, food, entertainment and more.
I massaged away your pains and bound your wounds with my hands.
With my arms I embraced you and held you oh so close.
With my back, legs and shoulders I hoisted and upheld
all the burdens that life threw at you,
which were many and difficult to be rid of.
With my feet, I walked so many miles for you
that they could not be counted.
With my eyes, I beheld you in eternal love.
With my mouth, I praised you.
With my mind, heart, soul, words and deeds,
I adored and was passionate toward you.
With my body and soul, I was faithful to you.
With all of me, I loved you and sacrificed all that I had for you
until there was nothing remaining.
Accept my being. 
I willingly gave all of me.

I would gladly do it all again to hold you and kiss your lips once more,
for you own all of me.

~8~

My eyes no longer wet from the years of struggle and fear,
I exist now only in thought and memory.
My love is gone, 
A shell so cold.
The misery is all that remains and dark crying of my soul,
it mourns the passing,
the passing of the light that was my guiding way.
The love all gone now as a holocaust of my being
and a single question of how.
I want to go back to those years of struggle and pain
and make right the mistakes I made,
but it is all in vain when your love is alive no more.
Oh, my love, how I wish to hold you once again
and press my lips to yours and give you my whole heart
in a way that will satisfy you and the crying in the dark.
Oh, I have lied about my eyes no longer wet.
They shall remain forever yours.

~8~