Frightened By Your Love
I see that you don’t understand
when I look into your eyes.
I can’t find the words to say
to help you realize.
You reach for me and I react
I’m tense from head to toe.
So many things about my heart
that you might never know.
So often it’s been broken
when push comes down to shove.
I’ve got to find a way to show,
I’m frightened by your love.
So pure it seems to me to be,
untainted by this world.
How can it last or make it past
this storm where I am hurled.
The ugly that my eyes have seen
from love that’s come undone.
It’s hard for me to just believe
I’ll ever find the one.
It might be that you and me
Would fit just like a glove.
But baby it don’t change the fact
I’m frightened by your love.
Edwin C Hofert
pirate pussy cat wore her pirate captain title like a glove
nasty and snarly, commissioned straight from providence above
the rest of us were gingerly tiptoeing around her, careful of her rank
she had a rep for throwing enemies in the water, skipping the plank
The colony rehearses its certainty—
feathers ticking like metronomes,
breath rising and vanishing on cue.
Ice remembers every footstep
and forgives none,
yet here life proceeds by agreement,
a choreography older than language,
each body a comma
in a sentence that ends in survival.
One bird pauses.
Not dramatically—
no prophecy, no cry.
He turns inland,
toward a blankness the wind has not edited.
The snow does not argue.
The horizon does not blink.
Instinct loosens its grip
like a glove dropped without noticing.
We watch because watching is all we have.
There is no word in our mouths
that fits this angle of departure.
Nature, usually so fluent,
stammers.
The camera keeps its distance,
as if reverence were a form of ignorance,
as if explanation would be a lie.
He becomes smaller, then theoretical.
Not broken, not heroic—
simply unsponsored by reason.
Some creatures follow maps.
Some discover that the map does not include them.
The ice closes its book.
The wind keeps walking.
Humanity, a big joke based on stories
First, their existence through the evolution of apes
Though it wasn't just picked up a day like groceries
It was proved by men who died still wearing their capes
As centuries passed their quest for wealth grew higher
Those who had, gave others no time for leisure
It was work, serve or face their wrath as a disloyal
In this, the masters gained nought but pleasure.
There was one flaw though in humanity
One that wrapped all hearts like a glove
And made both masters and servants form a bond of unity
The saviour for man's cruelty, love.
I sing your songs to this day
and get excited when your songs play
You died tragically and too young
A songwriting hero that was unsung
Your gritty voice I recognize well
and I still fall under your music's spell
You were an amazing Christian Artist
who talked about Christ first
You are missed and new artists love
recording your works because they fit like a glove
Like time has not passed at all when life spins on a dime
Because you are the greatest of all time
The snow softly falling, oh what a sight,
A warming special Christmas Eve night.
A welcoming season finally here.
A time to give, to love, to cheer.
The world is wrapped in silver and white,
Hearts aglow in the soft starlight.
Voices rise with songs so clear,
Jingle bells ring, joy drifts near.
It’s that magic time of year
That lifts our faith and calms our fear.
I’m counting stars, I’m holding tight,
Can’t wait to make it home tonight.
I’m filled with warmth, I’m full of light,
To hold you close—my Christmas Delight.
A miracle born of peace and love,
An anointed gift that fits like a glove.
My love is so sweet, he can call me even in my sleep.
Like a dream only he can build, he pulls me near and whispers sweet things in my ear.
My love is so strong, like a lion he has strong arms and pulls me near.
My love likes to play, like a lion in his den, he likes to play and make me laugh all day.
My love is like the weather, he changes all the time, making me take cover from all the storms.
My love makes me feel like no other, making me smile with excitement.
My love fits me like a glove, making me want to kiss him with love.
i love her.
That's the bottom line.
nothing else matters
as long as i can call her mine.
I thought id never be happy,
thought id never find love
i didn't think that i deserved it
but we fit like a glove
I'm scared to lose her
she means so much to me
what do i do if she leaves
i don't know who id be
As scary as love is,
there is no better feeling.
When I'm with her,
the sun never stops gleaming.
You fit me like a glove
I fly in like a dove
I drop in from above
A pink tornado of love
I try and fix my crown
I look for you downtown
You’ll know when I touch down
A collection of pink and brown
My heart hit a hard stop with you
It met its match, it already knew
Whatever you say, I’ll already do
Oh how dedicated I am to you..
You calmed my winds so gracefully
No more of me twisting painfully
Grounded and balanced tastefully
You tamed me ever so faithfully
I was a supercell with a dark green sky
A cloudy cylinder with physics defied
The eye of my storm and you went inside
You melted my doubts and tossed them aside
All because you fit me like a glove
I swooped in like a darling little dove
Dropped in like a hero from above
Turned into a pink tornado of love
Dear memories from the past,
and the daydreams that they cast.
A different time, a different love,
when life fit just like a glove.
Every day like a movie,
the sixties, they were groovy.
But dark clouds ruin the day,
and dark visions come to play.
We trade our lives for money,
calling the dark clouds sunny.
Seeing love's smiling face,
and how it's our saving grace.
Giving that look that grabs hold,
never doing what you're told.
The night it falls, like the leaves,
a man prays...like he believes.
“In-form polarities merge in the heart * One that became two becomes one again
Breath by breath feeling bliss ignition start* God’s grace in-pours as we dance in the rain”
Shaped and spooned you leaned into my heart
and from the very start you fit me like a glove !
We both imagined that we'd never part
but that was not to be, ... where are you love ?
Breath by breath we moved as one
you were the apple of my eye
I was your moon and morning sun!
but death took you away, where are you love?
Draped in sorrow dismantled by my tears
you left me suddenly, I nearly went insane
God's grace in-poured, as I danced in the rain
I asked God, ... where is my love ?
As Divinity bowed, heaven spilled another tear
it was then I knew, surely you must be near!
I feel so drawn into your spirit thru your eyes.
I feel I finally belong, without any surprise.
I feel our fates were blessings in disguise.
I feel it is soon a divine love we shall realise.
I feel drawn deeper into your body like light
Seeping through the shadows, stars alight.
I feel your astral body within mine, so tight.
I feel your Kundalini rise into helix, so bright.
I feel the tender holiness of your gentle love.
I feel holiness in poetic words from above.
I feel your immense love fits like a glove.
I feel urge to send you poems with a dove.
I feel the shared sentimental longing
For a place in which we find our belonging.
I feel a new magnitude of wistfully loving,
As my heart continues onward with climbing.
Oh Summer, let me count thy ways as I bask
inside the sunlight of your sunny spice
Oh Summer, may I drink from your flaxen flask
before winter turns my skin as cold as ice
Oh Summer, dance me to the end of August
then dance me to the end of love.
Oh Summer, before my memory turns to dust
come and fit me like a glove...
Oh Summer, favored amongst all seasons
with your golden rays of Yupik Mesquite
Oh summer, give me all your fiery beacons
lay your leathery heat on me, replete
Oh Summer, Oh Summer, Oh Summer,
you'll be gone soon, now that is a bummer !
Her hair is cherry coke red
Her stanely cup is pink
Her eyes are not dead
Her mind does not think
Her heart is full of love
Her hand is full of yours
Her clothes fit like a glove
Her body holds the cures
The love was never mine
But I held it so tight
Blood as red as wine
Tears reflect the light
All the work I put in
Was never enough
For your love doesn't look within
And my looks are too rough
Love abound
I feel it all around
Love is in the air
Life is a love affair
I am surrounded by my love all day
Living like it’s the only way
Let’s dance off the floor
Dancing out the door
Love is on our side
Love we won’t hide
Love won’t fill me with pride
But I will bring my side
You fit me like a glove
Like two doves in love
I will dance around you like a dove
All day long showing my love.
Keeping her happy my way
That is what I am going to do every day
For me it’s a way of life
That’s what I want for my wife.
Can’t bear the thought of being without my wife
She is completely and totally my whole life
The best place ai night
Is to sleep next to her, tight.
I feel love around
Let love abound
Let love be the motto in life
And there will be no shortage of love in your life.
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