#asentientpeach

I will love you like a bird loves the wind

Like the sun loves the sea

Like a bee loves its queen

I will love you in the rolling rain

In the quiet spaces

In the loud embraces

I will love you when my heart is cold

When I cannot sleep

When I sing defeat

I will love you like a petals soft whisper

Like an aching croon

Like this afternoon.

Days like cream soda fizzing on your tounge,

Pale pink wind napping on your skin,

The air warm like childhood summer nights,

And my heart is light as a kite.

The wading pool of my soul is calm waters,

Contentment permeates as coffee percolates,

Happiness fogs warm about my feet,

And my heart is a bittersweet peach.

My love is a broken battered thing,

Once gleaming gold

So safe to hold

It was worn down like a child's plaything.

I was so tired of being used,

Questioned and hurt

Trampled in dirt

In living a lie that I excused.

With eyes wide open I cut and ran,

Gathering pride

Undignified

Working to fill the pitcher cyan.

Holding tight my broken heart shards,

All on my own

Deep breath at home

Relaxing into my own safeguards.

I temper my steel and draw it through,

Perspective shift

No more adrift

Treasure to myself long overdue.

The one to laugh is the one to hold,

Daybreak in rain

Warm daisy chain

Dive deep into me and then behold:

There's a sword in my heart; draw it out,

And arm yourself,