I Love You - A Poem

A challenge set by Bernadette ( http://bernadette-davies.blogspot.co.uk/ ) to write something 'warm and fuzzy'. This was the best I could do.

I thought I was a lost soul

Drifting down the River Styx,

With pennies placed upon my eyes,

And hands bound tight with garlic.

But before I reach Charon,

A whisper intervenes.

A voice from far away,

Intangible, like a dream.

Not just the voice of an Angel,

A dream that I can wake from.

I know you're really out there somewhere,

My Love, My Soul Mate, The One.

I tear away the garlic,

And throw the pennies from my eyes.

I change the destination -

"To Hell with Hades!" I cry.

I leave the Underworld behind,

Alive, ecstatic, invigorated.

Emerging out a brand new man -

My heart, of course, reanimated.

And then I see you standing there,

Waiting in an evergreen field.

Blossoming like a purple rose -

My soul has now been healed.

We hug, and my mind explodes,

Erupting with euphoric bliss!

And how my stomach swirls with glee

When, at last, we kiss.

Rainbows in my bright blue eyes,

The sun as radiant as I feel.

Me and you, together in Eden,

Knowing our fate is sealed.

You rescued me from torment,

And proved that you are true.

All I have to say is this,

My Rose - "I Love You."

 © Copyright Cory Eadson, 2012 

The Pain I Feel Makes Me Love You Even More (You Be The Rose, I'll Be The Shade) - A Poem

Sprawled out in the sun

Like a pretty little coffin

(With dainty purple roses

Painted on the sides),

You wait for me to dig a hole

Six foot deep and six foot wide,

Where we can lie forever -

As the rest of the world goes by.

But my fingers can't grace

Your furnished, well-kept surface -

Death just out of reach,

My willing burial denied.

I ache from trying to touch you -

A futile attempt at an impossible connection.

And yet somewhere in this shade of grey,

Must lurk an answer to my pain.

Indeed, I shan't rest until I've stolen

All the colour from your eyes,

Like you stole the love from my heart.

I can't let you go alone -

To lie, solitary, my Purple Rose,

Without this Black Shade to veil you.

And I can't let you make me cry,

Because beneath my make-up

Is nothing, nothing at all.

There's only one way

To drive this Shadow from my soul -

Me and you together,

Buried, and whole.

© Copyright Cory Eadson, 2012