a moment for love (a collaboration with Angie)

soft caresses down your body

but not with hands, with words.

its how I've survived from this

aching distance, waiting for you

patiently, strolling this shoreline,

always so east of where you are

  me beside you, an endless dream

  I grasp precious time with every breath

  waiting each day for your words

  to reach my anxious eyes and ears

  acutely aware, my yearning desires

  so I send love letters, blow kisses your way

these cross country winds, how

they roll over the western mountains

and plow through the plains and

surge across the rivers, bringing you

here, into me. I inhale and fill myself

with absent but vital love and longing

  beneath the heavens of stardust,

  your eastern sunrise, my western sunset

  through miles of mountains and plains,

  a beautiful symphony emerges,

  lingering inside my head, your voice.

  I reach for it, preparing my approach

O love! kill this time and distance between

us. don't you hear me?  I am screaming... 

be here with me! embrace me wholeheartedly. 

I rise like the daily sun from the Atlantic

with warmth to greet you, forever eager.

reach and I will grasp, never letting you go

  you offer yourself, while I extend

  my love, longing for your sun and star,

  the need for closeness burning immensely.

  heart of shell, strung across beating chest,

  I carry east, replacing absence with

  chance - a moment for love to blossom

{My words in regular font, Hers in italics}

{Letters written by Angie}