Longing, by Persuasion72

Longing

You are real

When alone with me

The mask is off

That matter-of-fact sterile tone is silenced

And your words and feelings are one

Is that love I see in your eyes

Softening and sparkling

When we gaze at each other?

I feel the warmth of your body

When you sit close

I smell your clean clothes smell

Overwhelmed, I wrap my arms around myself

Trying to soothe the ache

A poor substitute for your arms

And love

So desperately needed

My heart is hot with affection and longing

Can you feel its heat

Spilling over and flowing outward

Toward you

Only you?

Alone at night I ask God for help

I ask Him to take away this painful desire

And give me peace again

Or to just give me you.

(2014)

Enormous blue eyes Fill with tears Almost 12 But still a baby Needing reassurance

Trying to cry When you realize that it’s over The feelings have waned Eyes don’t connect You desperately chase

Letting go An obsession that had consumed My thoughts, dreams and heart Letting go of that high I had surfed upon since the spring

Nothing but a whore in this house Who puts out to keep the peace She uses her body to placate And manipulate No matter how bad things get

Grey blue windows of a guarded sou… She stares intently Being the listener, the mother, th… Lifting heavy bags And holding doors