Do I Dare?

I find myself missing you
though I tell myself
I have no right
to think of you as mine,
and yet, I can't deny this truth
I am most intrigued by this growing need
for you and only you,
thoughts of ...
oh! how they tease
curiously
inconspicuously,
when I least expect
there they are,
all around
confounding
tantalizing...

the essence of your presence
draws me near
caressingly,
to the dawn of something
so brand new,
do I dare reveal
this tender flame that calls your name
listen,
do you hear?

(12.30.08.ajs)

Rhapsodic

You bring to me a measure of
Contained excitement
Hinting of a promise sublime
Serendipitous enticement of the magnificence
A dream within a scene of shared realities and yet,
Across this great divide we sing
An enlightening truth where we break free
To live and be around this melody
A rhapsody
Inside my mind,
Shared by two and not confined
By space and time
What ecstasy divine…

(12.27.08.ajs)

One Last Kiss

could this be the last time
we gather here, like this?
with smiles plastered wide
all beside themselves
stacked neatly and placed on the back rows,
just in case.
these serendipitous swings
do they mean anything
or am I too busy looking for clues
any hint or suggestion
I am still alive
and all this makes for some rather intense
reckoning of souls
on this happenstance day
layered light as we dip and sway,
music soft
while the chatter is sweet
quick, let us remember
this,
one last kiss...

(12.23.08.ajs)

My Dream

I looked and you were there
in answer to my thoughts, almost
an answer to a prayer I once
believed in,
and yet, never knew as mine.
remaining on these pages
written,
journals full ...

oh! how the vision came alive today!
standing right in front of me
exactly as I'd seen,
so many times
in my mind

I stood mesmerized, petrified
filled with joy
unspeakable,
until you walked away
into another time
back inside my mind

my dream came true
if only, for a glimpse of you ...

(ajs.12/10/2008)