Alexis By Moonlight

It’s dusk.
I see your face
touched by moonlight -
molten silver
in the night.

Trembling,
I reach out
to touch you,
feel the warmth of your skin,
the creamy softness of it
under my fingertips.

You lean into my touch,
close your eyes and sigh -
a sound soft as a whisper
of wind through pines.
I would love you
gently tonight,
and every night.

If you would but love me.

Invisible

I stood next to you today
and drank in the smell
of your perfume
heated by the warmth
of your body.
I wanted to show you
how I could touch you
with hands as gentle
as a dove’s feather.
But I only stared ahead
and dreamed in silence,
Invisible
as the air you breathe.

The Secret Side of You

Rain dripped from your hair
and hung from your eyelashes
like unshed tears.
Your thoughts were hidden
behind clouds as gray as
the sky.

You thought I wasn’t watching
when you looked to the heavens
and stuck out your tongue
to catch the drops.
But I saw how you reveled
in the taste of it,
the feel of it’s coldness
the smell as it fell on
rich soil.

The secret side of you smiled,
a rainbow smile that parted the clouds
and showed me sunshine
where once
only rain fell.

Dawn

In early morning,
You lie in slumber –
hair tousled,
eyelashes dark and soft
against your cheeks.
I can’t deny my love
when I see you,
in the quiet hours
of dawn.

Goodbye

Who would have thought
that now,
when spring has touched the earth,
my heart
would ache like this?
Goodbyes should be left for winter,
when wind rattles through trees
like dry bones,
leaves rot under foot
and snow blankets the world
with cold.

I knew goodbye would come.
You a butterfly
with irridescent wings,
must fly.
And me –
a tree with roots so deep,
to wrench them from the ground
would uproot my very soul.
Goodbye.
So complicated.
So incomprehensible.
So final.
Goodbye.