EYES WIDE OPEN ALWAYS HOPING FOR THE SUN

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”

 

- Samuel Smiles

 

Soundtrack :www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXiRuSIXbns

SEVEN YEARS – NORAH JONES

 

I miss your touch

your smile I love so much

the caress of your warm

and gentle arms that calm

and soothe me into dreamless sleep

so deep and sumptuous

tangled limbs and ice cold feet

long dark lashes kiss my eyes

and smooth my brow like butterflies

soft wings and pastel rainbows

flow and flutter; tears fall salted

transparent; softly muttered

utterances of delightful chatter

pitter-patter like gentle rain

that rolls so slowly in it's motion

down the window pane and pools

beneath on smooth and velvet

silken skin and whispers of important

plans are made in coolness of sweet solitude

in cloistered secrecy between the two of us

and then I wake to realise

that dreams are often far more vivid

than our memories will let us think

as we remember deeply

all those moments that we lost along the way

but all the tenderest ones we had will always stay

and these are most important

cherished in forgiving gentle hearts

a cache of treasured feelings

that our souls will always bear and not impart

now locked away in hidden chambers

loved yet never seeing light of day

unless someone may look a little closer

into the depth of feeling hidden in my eyes

and look again; then deeper still

and catch their breath with

all they see that I no longer can disguise

a deep and solemn longing

that pulls at heart and soul with all it's might

a need in me that one day will be prophesied

in terms of grief that brought me here

and hope and grace of all my youth

and long lost childhood years

will transform me into someone,

someone else might bring to tears

of joy instead of sorrow

a promise of a bright tomorrow

where sadness recedes

into the darkest corners of my mind

replaced with happiness

with someone who is kind

and on my wavelength

strength and loving me as I love them the same

equal measures; lifetime pleasures

treasures that are far beyond my dreams

let priceless pearls of wisdom

guide us; lead us; keep us for eternity

safe within each other's loving arms

and gently resting blissful heads

on pillows soft and bursting at the seams

with paradise that is our greatest wish

let no-one take this from us

may we always and forever feel like this.

 

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