lightly

if love be in for me
tell me softly
how i first, and how you knew
those waves wash over me

they carry me lightly
and hold my young heart
direct me, show me, let me
how we feel so quietly

untitled

two fingers press my lips -
i move to wake and find
everything a lighter hue -
my pulse astir in fear;
by first light, your words
lash away my youth

a fire

tomorrow we'll see
how the night colors
a fire

moves

an ache swells within me,
moves me, runs through me
falls from my eyes
pains my chest and clinches
a terrible warmth

had i

and it's locked within
how you went so softly -
and held close my light
and to think on it now,
having been but a dream
ill-equipped in youth and time
had i but met you, before my life