Hand in hand is what i desire

A love ever enduring blazing with fire

Two becoming one how romantic a notion

Can it ever be or is it merely a childish emotion?

What I desire is everlasting- ever burning ever changing--yet everlasting

It is for that I am fighting- for that I am grasping

Is there another who shares my perception,

Who yearns for that ardent bond and not constant deception?

Crushed and abandoned, Once afraid to open my heart

With my deep emotions I would never part

I held on to my love, no longer would I share it

No one was deserving, gentle enough to cherish it

Instead, i gave of my being, for that hurt less

Simply a moment in time filled with a sweet caress.

Passions ignited, shallow at best

Never enough to put my yearning to rest.

No longer could I ignore my heart's muffled cries

It needed substance, or else prolong my internal demise.

The love I harbored inside fought to escape

It was too strong of a love, too deep to sit and wait

It yearned to share all it possessed inside

To give of itself, for its passion it could not hide.

I now realize my love is too much to hoard

Living without loving-- I simply cannot afford

My passion--- stronger than the past, stronger than the pain.

Holds on to faith and sees through the rain

As the sun and moon fade, my delicate heart it is molding

Everlasting ever growing ever sharing, not withholding

I know not what life has in store,

Yet giving of my love I shall remain, forever more...