All I Need Is Your Love

All I Need Is Your Love



Yearning—
A burgeoning moment of longing threatens
to spill across my tongue in words deserving your ears.
I fear you are unprepared for my willing utterances,
instead, dismissing them as alms of charity to your heart.

Wanting—
Precious time evaporates when waiting,
wishing I could hold captive this evanescent encounter.
A simple change is my request, some brief moment
while our love waits to bloom.

Wondering—
I am left bereft of sane thought. Do the
dim embers of desire not awaken a flame within you?
For what is this promise kept, that I should
continue opening my heart to a stranger’s love?

Ignoring—
The void between us grows when you push me aside.
Is this your desire—for me to drown in a
sea of forbidden tears, cast from shore, adrift
without hope of coming home?

Fearing these feelings are just lies I tell myself,
as your emptiness consumes my existence,
I am left without emotional sustenance,
denied again … for all I need is your love.

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