I search your words for meanings
Hidden in the day to day
Stories of life you portray for me
Clues to the reasons that inspire your
Interest when so many options exist
Differences in place, time, idiom
Matter not in context
Of the sentiments you infer
A kindness that causes
My jaded soul to
Dare trust again.
The ebb and flow of contact
Once mercurial over years
Shifts to a steady rhythmic tide
As our bonds grow resolute
My thirst for awareness
Of you is endless
Your belief a gift that
Intensifies my will to
Best the surging waves of doubt.
Seeing myself through your eyes
Brings a clarity to distorted perceptions
As residual pain slowly wanes
From flowers formed of despair
Petals fall in gentle rains
Dissolving the ghosts of memory that
Deadened all possibility of bliss
Obliging laughter to take their place
As I read the stresses drain away
Your words call out to tell me I'm not alone
Spanning the differences in cultures
The miles and beliefs that could divide us
Reaching out these words seek to
Reveal a precious secret
Nestled safely within a
Fragile sliver of hope
Fashioned into a question
That which I hold in my hand
Is it your heart?
