Love

Love is power
We can do beyond our thoughts
It drives us to protect
Without boundaries, we act
With love in our heart - the greatest

Love is strength
Carry us when we struggle
If we search the love
Within us, we overcome
All that seems emotionally impossible

Love is light
Where there is darkness
There will always be light
Look and feel love
You will find your way
Out of the darkness
A path will present to you

Love is foundation
Nothing has significance
Without the love
We are nothing
A mere hollow shell
Striving for meaning
That makes no sense
Until we have and know
- Love -

Love is a place
With deepest foundations
A place full of light
Filled with strength, power
This place we protect
Beyond our expectations

By Just Me

A Breeze Came

The breeze came,
the leaves rushed aimlessly ahead
letting the wind catch them in its whim

How freely they ebb and flow above the ground
they had once fallen
thought forsaken

Just as you came along
lifted me from a place
thought to dwell
for a long time to come

I let myself be open to you
caught in your presence
to take me - I follow thee
you lead me
to where I needed to be
- with you -

Just Me

Impressionable Scars

I know I am privileged
when I see water in your eyes
One smell, one scene, one sound
- a flashback,
which only you can see

Only you can wear, the scars
they go where you go
never to be erased
eternally buried beneath you
but never completely hidden away

A part of your life, a moment,
a memory, a journey
that you have traversed and inked
mentally, physically and emotionally

We speak of our scars -
when we can, we wear them with pride
they are important in the making of who we are

As your eyes dabble or swim in the water
it is your soul expressing something important,
an impression that is forever yours

I am privileged - my soul wants to reach for yours
to ease your torment, this emotional pain
my eyes want to swim with yours,
not because I know what you are feeling, remembering
but because I am there for you, I feel sadness

In all of your incredible strength, I know
that in this moment no strength can stop
what needs to be released from within -
that's how these moments are important
- impressionable -

Just Me

Downing in Dunes

It used to be that way
tear-drops hidden behind my smile
that shall never chance to fall
that shall never touch my face
that shall never hit the ground

A smile that held it all - buried
behind it lay shadows of a past
where years of who I could have been
were nothing but particles of dust

Drowning in dunes - dust to sand
swimming for the surface
struggling for air
as more of me was lost.......

All that I wanted to dream, reduced
all that was left of me was defence
any tear that shall escape
absorbed by the sand sculpture
of which I had become

by Just Me

More Than Just an Onion

Layers of an onion I gave to you
Like a circle, unbroken
Like the brightness of the moon
The warmth of the sun
I am your constant

At the heart of the onion
Is my heart - I give to you
More than an onion (a circle)
Wrapped in thin brown paper
I am potent with love
Fierce in my devotion

A kiss from an onion
(My lips to your lips) stained
With my faithfulness,
My commitment,
You possess me
I am sweetly poisoned by you
There is no cure - I don't need one
You are my constant

by Just Me