Gentle Heart Beats

Valentine

There is

A heart-shaped

Emptiness

Inside of me,

Awaiting

Your return

Without anxiety.

_____© Nellieanna H. Hay

Yes, you're right.

I am greedy

Where you're concerned, ~

And spoiled.

You and you alone

Fill me completely

To overflowing

When you stay.

You lift me

To the highest peak,

Caress my very soul;

And when we speak

It's ecstasy.

I want to please you

Every way.

I cannot have enough

Of pleasing you!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

When you want me there

With you ~

Know that I am.

I learn to walk on air

To where you are -

At speed of light.

I see you with my heart;

For part of you

Is always within sight.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

'I'll write a poem for you', you said,

Among other things

I hungered to hear.

I hope you do.

I wished we could say it, do it

Every way it can be

Said and done.

'I need so much to be loved', you said,

Among the things

I thirsted for.

I knew you meant that

You needed to be loved

Exquisitely, profoundly, unconditionally.

I do and you are.

Everything

You ever said and did,

I treasure.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

They're always changing holidays.

But I don't recall

When they changed Valentine's

To Thursday.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Carefully, cautiously,

The door begins to open.

The dormant room inside begins

To stir;

Its insides enlightened,

Heightened, brightened

By the hope of love.

Its thin, stagnant air,

Too long denied sustaining life,

Now eagerly absorbs

Clean, crisp, vital

Replenishment.

At last we dare

To think of all it was,

All it might have been,

If given just a chance to care,

To reach and touch again -

Somehow,

Somewhere.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

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