Have been listening recently to Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder and James Morrison, wondering whether all the best love songs have already been written. Is there a love song already out there on a shelf, ready to be picked out for any occasion? How many different ways can you tell someone how you feel? I consider myself pretty picky about love songs I like as it has to have the delicate balance of sincerity and substance to make me pay attention. There are many who try but few who just instinctively know what you have to hear right then and there in the moment. Not that I always know what to say either but here’s my humble attempt:
Emblazoned
Resist but my name will escape your lips
Fight the urge to boldly reach your fingertips
Coming just close enough to explore and slowly slip
With the utmost respect, not hastily stripped
Taking eternity to enjoy every scar, the curve of each hip
My image, emblazoned in your mind
Pretending your thoughts aren’t clouded, rendering you blind
Memorizing the common ground and spark contrast, souls aligned
Arriving at the conclusion, you love my enigmatic and contradictory kind
Hands on clocks spin, no one cares, leaving everything else behind
Blissful entanglement, still not sure what belongs to whom
Cloaked messily, wrapped in cotton, silk and fleece like a womb
Stubble prickling smooth skin, oblivious to the morning foggy gloom
Avoiding the day’s commitments as long as possible but reality looms
Phones start to ring, e-mails waiting for needless answers, duty must resume
Awkwardness reappears, struggling for perfect words to say, syllables forming
Without a spotlight and stranger admiration, have trouble performing
Getting caught up in the future bad possibilities, cautious doubt swarming
Outside opinions beginning to influence, dimming the glow, conforming
Excruciating memories of past emotional battles lost, emerge storming
But one look deep into eyes, pushes the superfluous external drama aside
Tears cried for the unworthy prior no longer matter, we both deeply sigh
Obstacles will always return but fall away again, cynical voices subside
In a crowd, only you and I exist, walking together silently in stride
Fate accepted, unexplainably to each other we are guided
