THE SOFT SHELL OF LOVE
My heart is a wave breaking on shore
Part of me isn't so sure
Whether to dive into that wave
Or let my tears fall
Like rain where we lie
Darkness is dancing with the sunlight now
Finding us naked side by side
Scooping up eternity
Watching it slide
Past the palms of our hands
Through the cup of our lives
Eternity watching
As we reach for each other
Like an ocean wave trying
To become one with the shore
Always receding
Pulling away
Scouting out the next
Breaker to ride
My heart is a wave breaking on shore
Part of me isn't so sure
Whether to dive into that wave
Or to pull you so close
You can never leave
As I bend down to lift
Your sand to my hand
I'm Hungry for what, I don't understand
Caught up in a world
Of I want and I want
Where the more I need
The less I see
Where still I crave you next to me
This feels so crazy
Like some washed up woman
Some bent over man
Fighting a cold wind
Tossed by each wave
Caught in the tide, drifting away
Feeling my heart cracking apart
Locked out of a world I came to adore
Paddling our boat with this broken oar
My heart is a wave pounding on shore
Part of me isn't so sure
Whether to dive into that wave
Or to climb this cliff
Behind where we lay
Where the sun still glistens
Where eagles fly
Where darkness has yet to swallow our lives
Where I can still touch you in my mind
Press my heart next to you one last time
Before this ocean wave
crashes
And buries our love
Leaving a soft shell to remember you by
Gary Lange: copyright Feb 1999
(Dedicated to my favorite maskmaker
now is your time
spread your wings and fly girl
spread your wings and fly!)
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http://www.intimateriver.com/index.html | | | Introduction To Poetry
Intimate River Poems (Collection)
Intimate River | | | The Soft Shell Of Love| | | In a Passionate Heat
Speak Easy Lady | | | A Hundred Blossoms | | | Belly To Belly
Our Sacred Fire | | | Shelter My Spirit
Sun Up And I'm On My Way (Tree-planting Poems collection)
Anthem For The Earth | | | Anthem For Her Children
The Slash Eater's Song | | | Bongo's Song
Thoughts I Have Lived With (Selections from 30 years of writing)
Too Hot To Handle | | | Dancing Across Heaven Together Again
Lucy Looks Twice | | | Lady In Flight | | | Datsun Red Lemon
Martyrs Of Mercy
Notes From Rainbow Island (Selected prose I've written)
Jim's Speach | | | The Tale Of Fifty Roses | | | Cuckoo's Nest
NDSU Degree Proposal | | | On Sacred Ground
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