I find myself swimming
In the depths of your stare
Sometimes I look too long
Completely unaware
And yet you smile back
Catching me and my gaze
Knowing full well
How much you amaze
And I wonder how you do it
How I get so lost in your eyes
All-consuming intensity
The fire never dies
I can always feel you
Even if we don’t touch
It’s like fireworks in my soul
Because I love you so much
© 2021 Michelle Cook
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People come
and people go,
like the weather
is it all for show?
My deepest desire
is to see someone stay,
to keep a promise
and never go away.
Maybe I’m just needy
and want it all,
I tend to dream
of the impossible.
Regardless of everything
I want the love of a close friend,
one in which
I can always depend.
I believe that life
gives us what we give,
this is what allows us
to fully live.
So I try to relinquish
the tender parts of my heart,
I’ve always done this
from the very start.
But I know deep down,
I’ll never be the only one,
for I am merely
a fraction of the sum.
And yet sometimes I still forget
there isn’t just a “me,”
the equation is more
than what I can see.
Plain as day
and black as night,
this dose of reality
is my darkest plight.
I remind myself to accept
all that I can’t change,
even when life seeks
to rearrange.
There is nothing else
I can possibly do,
I can’t hold on
without the glue.
I’ve become accustomed
to letting life move past,
for I know dreams
they often don’t last.
I only wilt further
when I choose to hold too tight.
These are the battles
I continue to fight.
© 2020 Michelle Cook
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Sometimes love is more than love;
it just happens, and there isn’t a doubt.
And you try so hard to hold it in,
but you’d rather scream and shout.
And it’s funny how it catches you
in those moments you thought wouldn’t exist.
And once it takes hold of your heart,
there’s just no trying to resist.
Your soul is somehow captured,
beholden forevermore.
And you’re left at the mercy of things
you’d never even considered before.
The emotions are so overwhelming
as the feelings flood your body and soul.
And you find yourself losing
all that’s left of your self-control.
When love is more than love,
there’s no escaping its merciless grasp.
So instead, you breathe it all in
because you just wanna make it last.
© 2020 Michelle Cook
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Writing prompt: When love is more than love.
Turn this page over
See what’s behind
In-between the creases
I cannot hide
You’ll see my reality
The truth that I face
The depth of my desires
I dare not taste
Each sweeter than honey
These visions I explore
Yet locked in silence
Behind forbidden’s door
© 2020 Michelle Cook
Photo credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/fantasy-dark-gothic-dream-woman-4565555/
He lingers nearby
On the edge of the page
The page we’re still writing
Where love continues to blossom
Unfolding ever so delicately
And he’s mesmerized
By the mind-boggling splendor
His eyes so bright
Enthusiastically consumed
With the miraculous happenings
Of what he observes
And he stays a little longer
Leaning in for a closer view
Lingering in the loveliness
Of our imperishable page
So beautifully written
Full of all the days we’ve shared
Memories of us
And the many years we’ve loved
© 2020 Michelle Cook
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