Across Love's Skies

This was a poem that I wrote in 2009. I wrote it for the love story of another book I was writing at the time. It goes along well with this music by John Williams if you care to try them together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nk_WHHTQtY

 

Across Love's Skies

It started as a feeling which turned into a hoping dart:

Standing beside me I feel you long for my heart.

And in my heart I hear you crying and saying I love you

Even when the world around us forbids us to love so true.

Across the skies I feel it; in my heart this I do keep.

Your love takes wing like birds from the great deep!

This love is vaster than the oceans, more rare than a dragon's heart.

This love is like the stars in the sky, seen yet held far apart.

 

I feel you standing beside me and deep inside I hear your vow

Deep in your heart your saying 'I love you now!'

It rings out like a battle cry a call of a friend in need

And I would answer that cry, but I am chained; withheld to heed.

Across the skies I see it, like the stars I hold it deep.

Our love a flying passion we must keep!

Oh how can I hold this emotion? When will our love part?

I see you hiding this feeling, holding it deep in your heart!

I wish our love could fly, fly on strong wings up high

Soar through the heavens; our hearts so freely nigh!

But yet the world in darkness plagues us with deaths lonely somber sleep

Threatening to chain and slay our deep love forever to keep.

 

I feel your love like cool wind; see it as diamonds in night's sky.

I long to hold your heart like you wish too mine.

But our love God must retain

And help us bare our pain.

(C) Kathryn J. Fogleman