Effortlessly

 

I dream beside you of you
Sleeping in anticipation of waking up
Arms like resurrection
I am both sedated and yet moved by you

Every word is an understatement
In my vain attempt to appraise priceless
Heart like a home custom made
As I am the tenant of your soul
Steward of the invaluable possession of God

You are the light in the hope of a new day
Dawning on me every morning
You out rise the sun
If pain is weakness leaving the body
Then your tears shed the weight of grief

Every drop like a seed planted in the soil of my heart
As I speak a word to bloom bouquets of poetry
Displayed in memoirs like vases of my soul

You rob the pages of my self-expression
As you take up residence in my mind
And heist my affections
Reinforcing heartstrings weaved like a common thread
On the loom of our backbones entwined

You find reassurance in me yet are the stint of my hopes
Knit into the common fabric of our faith materialized
As you become the evidence of God to me
You are a beauty unaware of yourself in modesty
Shortchanged and overlooked by the world

If all it takes is one person’s absence to feel entirely alone
Surely you are more than enough to slight the odds
In the sure bets placed on remaking home
Words are fleeting or meaningful as the actions that back them
On a scale of truth to counterfeit you are a fade-less oath
Withstanding the test of time

Reciprocating every notion of love requited
You are a touch unparalleled with fingerprints left on my heart
Engraved like the signature of your hand unmatched
I cannot help but feel the way I do about you
As you provoke passion in me by nature

I bask in your light and shadows
Praying I am as much a joy to you as you are to me
Interchanging nightlight comforts as we radiate

Burning away the pain of yesterday with midnight oils ignited
I remain beside you equally as speechless in the face of knowing why
You’re a masterpiece naming me priceless while self-shortsighted
Loving you comes naturally and I hardly have to try…