Love's Yearning

Hearts like ours will cross our silent yearning
and dance with lonely wishes and dreams
to find the longing realm of love

Like vagabonds, we will dance on empty streets
of false contentment and illusion...until 
Love finds us worthy to nourish our souls
and welcome us

Guiding us into a luminous fervor
of rapidly pounding heartbeats
breaking free from bonds of tethered despair
as we cradle in our palms the burning hope of yearning
   at long last found, 
throbbing from each kiss melted by hunger and set loose
from the deepest cavern of starved emotion
   kept for so long 
hidden away from the untrusted words of false sweetness
where we guarded our heart's precious passions
that would have brought madness to our souls
if stolen or casually thrown away

Love found us worthy in its own time
and allowed us to share the beauty of our hearts
to become one heartbeat and yearn no more

12/18/20
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Lawrence Avatar
January 3, 2021 at 9:19 AM
Frederic, such passion, yearning and union in this beautiful poem. "from the deepest cavern of starved emotion". So many longing souls suffer from this. What a gift to have the well filled with love. A real treasure.. Susan
Nicole Avatar
December 18, 2020 at 7:48 PM
"And allowed us to share the beauty of our hearts, to become one heartbeat and yearn no more" This is beautiful and tender. The longing within is evident. You have created a masterpiece. :) Brandy
Krutsinger Avatar
December 18, 2020 at 7:11 PM
So romantic and heartfelt. Beautiful.
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