Intimacy

 Your heart finds me like the river meets the sea

Crashing in - two things become one

So vast and so deep I have only one choice - learn to swim

And I am overcome

Consistently and effortlessly overcome by the soft touch of your hand

By the sweeping sound of your voice

Calling me to answer, calling me to be still

And listen to the birds singing, to the rivers running

And suddenly my feet too, running, running always toward you

And you reach your hand back for me

To walk along the path together, and we are free

Free as those birds singing their sweet songs in the trees

Just as sweet as the songs you sing for me in the morning

You cast a smile in my direction and I turn to snow

Melting in your precious hands

I would cover everything as far as the eye could see

As long as it meant that you would lay your body down on me

The greatest vulnerability

The highest compliment of intimacy

I look at you and see a lifetime of love

I can hear the longing whispers in the dark

A little girl keeping secrets in her heart

Holding out hope for a love like this one

And my heart has known storms and sorrows

And past my lips have come realities hard to swallow

But you are the dream of dreams

And in my heart of hearts I know you are the answer

To a once long forgotten prayer

And in your loving stare I know that no one could ever take your place

That my heart was always yours to take