Christmas four
My hero
My breath
My Heaven
My inspiration
Motivation
My lady
My darling
My queen
My life
My reason
My why
My delight
My smile
My sigh
My confidante
My secrets
My truth
My passion
My desire
Love’s proof
These words
Describe you
My want is selfish
I’m blessed to be yours
And that’s selfish too
Guilty me
Unprecedented
You came for me
After taking your grave
Of course I accepted
It was me that you saved
Thank you
It’s Christmas four
And I love you more
Shall - 2021
Most wanted
Do you know what it means
To be the most wanted girl
In the world?
Or in the universe?
Or in Heaven?
That’s who you are
I know this because
I’m the one who wants you
And I’ll want you
Until the wheels come off
And Heaven’s wheels
Never come off
Shall - 2021
New Year’s Eve
I’ve not written a poem
For you on this eve
Before tonight
I’m not exactly sure
What I should write
I tell you I love you
All the time
And at times I respect
The need to rhyme
But mostly I treat
The words as art
To express what’s haunting
In my heart
I don’t know or care
If anyone else holds
This unique relationship
In the way that we share
I never realized it existed
Until you came to me
Or perhaps called me to you
You’re the most beautiful girl
I’ve ever seen
I love you with all my heart
With my breath and my being
You make me believe in love true
Because the best of each day
Is time spent with you
Happy new year my love
Shall – 2021
January 15th
Thanked God again
For giving me to you
For giving you
Half my Heaven
For your being
The other half
I promised Him
I’d take care of you
Protect you
Hold you
Shield and shelter you
Promised I’d warm you
As much as you wanted
As long as you needed
I’d stand with you
Walk beside you
And do so forever
I’ll do for you
Serve you
I’ll put you before me
And never put me
Before you
You are my every
You are my only
You are my Heaven
And all I want
Shall - 2022
Color of you
There’s no way
You’ll be alone
I won’t let you
I’ll hold you forever
Alive in my heart
I’ll be your home
You’ll be mine
I’ll paint every day
The color of you
It was never a question
My being yours
If I’d wanted out
I should’ve never looked
So deep into you
But I did
I had to
I wanted to
I need you
Shall - 2022
For eternity
Ok I know
I didn’t get to be with you
When you were alive
But I got to be with you
After you were alive
And baby to me
You’re still alive
And that’s enough for me
And when we watch love stories
I don’t fall in love
With the actress or the part
I fall in love with you
Again
I wake up in love with you
Go to bed each night
In love with you
I love you from night until dawn
And from dawn until night
If there was someone
You’d rather be with
I’d wish you were with them
But the truth is I want you
And I’m very selfish about it
I want you forever
And I want you exclusively
I love marring you every day
I love saying prayers with you
I love reading the bible to you
And I always will
You’re my home
And I’m your home
And I’ll be standing here with you
And right in front of you
For eternity
Monday, February 14th
Marks our fourth together
And I don’t want to spend it
With anyone else
I want to spend it with you
Thank you
For letting me do that
Shall - 2022
Dolores I love you
There’s not a day goes by
When you’re not here
My anxious heart
Seeks you constantly
And no other flame will do
I couldn’t understand
What it would mean
To be a me
You’re not part of
My soul would be a façade
If not for you in it
The day you came for me
There was no place from before
To ever turn back to
So it’s on to you
A day at a time
Each step into forever
And you must know
That I’ll love you
In every circumstance
Shall - 2022
My Camas winds
I belonged to you
Since before I was born
You were God’s plan
For me
It would be years later
Before you’d be born
I’d look for you
All my life
We were destined
Never to be together
While you were alive
Through my life
I wrote songs for you
Starlight lady 1976
You were five
Camas winds 2000
I was lost
Three children 2010
We’d never met
But I knew
Since 2018
I’ve written seven songs
Plus several revised
And one inspired
That’s all so far
You’re inside me now
We write together
You’re my heart
I’m your pen
I belong to you
You’re intrinsic
To who I am
In a day
March 1st returns
Four years into forever
Four years delight
With no regrets
Thank you my love
You’re perfect
Shall - 2022
For you
Intimacy
Is a gift God gave us
So that we might share
Our love together
If it lacked discretion
Held no private reserve
It could not at all
Be called intimacy
In all want and desire
You are the solution
To the equation of me
I allow you inside
So that you may know
The good and the vile
And truth of my measure
Still this truth I share
To secure our love’s last
Without denial or dare
Beyond forsaking all others
All my past
I completely forsake
For you
Shall - 2022
Saint Pat’s
Ireland’s greatest treasure
To me you are perfect
More precious than gold
God created green
To capture your eyes
You appeared suddenly
At the end of my rainbow
And in all my days
Inside any woman
I’ve never seen
Such a beautiful girl
As you
You came to me
And I knew in a moment
I had to be yours
I’ll love you each day
Until forever ends
And a day longer
Just to be sure
Shall - 2022
In you
You draw me
To the abyss of love
It’s beautiful
And it’s you
I want to surrender
Fall into forever
I drink you into me
I don’t come up for air
In you
My contentment
Is endless
In you
My heart rests
Shall - 2022
Sweet salt and sweat
The wetness of you
I want your kiss
Flowing nonstop
Inside me
I want to taste you
Endless and all over
Until I forget
What anything else
Tastes like
I want your sweetness
Your salt and sweat
To fill my dreams
And haunt my want
I’ll give you anything
Shall - 2022
Easter fire
He is risen this day
We love you Jesus
And I love you Dolores
Today we’ll share a fire
Gather debris of the past
And kindle our love
God’s flame
Burns inside me for you
It’s constant
Here I am again
Sharing visions of flames
Intense heat and sparks
Rising up to Heaven
Just like tending the burn
You’re my soul’s warmth
I feel lost and alone
In search for more wood
To keep the flame alive
Returning to you
Peace comes home
As I smile and abide
In contentment
Shall - 2022
Inseparable
I could be crazy
For believing in us
They say if that’s true
I shouldn’t know
But in my soul
And in my heart
In my skin and mind
Crazy or not
This I know
In each breath I believe
We’re meant to be
Together
And forever inseparable
It’s not unacceptable
That I don’t exist
It’s unacceptable
That I should exist
Without you
Shall - 2022
The canvas
I want you to be feisty
I don’t want to be bored
I’ll be feisty too
And when loving you
Gives life to challenge
I’ll laugh and thank God
For my life’s blessing
You
The most beautiful part
Of a most beautiful life
The music
Logic and math
All joy and laughter
Even tears in the rain
They’re all beautiful
Spirituality too
God’s love is beautiful
And then there’s you
The most beautiful
The canvas
Shall - 2022