The Ways You Walk Beside Me
Friend, partner, lover, companion, spouse These are the ways we walk together. Forgotten fears, Foot steps behind us dissipating in the laughter of our growing old together, capable of having too much fun as my friend in the garden we long since planted with the soil of our spirit and desire, you enrich my union with the earth, your water nourishes the very root of my being me. you look upon me without judgment and when momentarily I lose sight of who I am, I turn to my friend and your light is always in the window, the way to your heart always open it is you I come to when I want to be alone and need to be held as partners Palm-to-palm fingers entwined in wonder of the world around us, venturing in unknown surprise in a no fault relationship trusting we are there for each other. we talk to one another and I am in awe of your wisdom. we share our space, I am saturated with your nearness. side by side in cadence, indivisible in the light leaving one set of footprints in the silt and sands of our memories. I will be forever courting you in delight your lover unblushingly undressed before the mistress of my passions, you lovingly invite my touch, my humbled hands conduct a symphony of fire. you welcome the heat of my desire, my body enters sacred ground and finds fulfillment in your fantasies. my love lies down to sleep beside me the companion of my dreams, your soft hands beside my head holding the night together. I close my eyes knowing when I wake you will be there beside me waiting as the dawn waits for daylight. you say my name, good morning and I am at peace with myself as my spouse there is no bond between us. No neediness or wantfullness, only loving the warm comfort in a winter’s darkness of our flesh folding over one another. a husband needing to come home to only you to catch the moonlight as it lays shadows across your body, wanting always to breathe you in. By John Howard Dodds |
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