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My soft hands
gliding over your tired soul
like warmth over heat
cover you with sleep
Something that creeps in
Taking hold of your senses
gripping onto your emotions
covering them in suspended depth
retreats for the moment --
This moment that I hold you
so close to my hope
Transcending every venue
of depression and confusion
futile spies who wait
disguised in fear
will hide from the taste
of the sheltered kiss I bring
Tenderly and carefully
lifting you to faith
I will carry uncertainty for you,
this burden, this strangess
an unfamiliar place
My lips land gently
upon your worries
smoothing away
the unruly wrinkles of sorrow
and healing those wounds
that have temporarily left
their reputable bloody disdain
on your possible tomorrows
I will wash you again, my love
Breathing in the late night air
exhaling cool dreams
into your mind
upon your fevered heart
with a silence only given
not wasted
while we are apart
bringing your strength in…
I will hold you high above the night
Listening to your pain and promise
from too many miles away
without you…
but so near to you…
While you rest
I will stay beside you
I will do my best