By Galadrial
Date: 2001 May 16
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Redemption Of A Heart

Come here love---
sit by me a moment
give me your hands
so that I can feel you again,
and hear the words of my heart.

I stood in a sweet wind
and it cleaned my spirit,
carried it like a silk kite
bobbing in the sun
and while it left the love intact,
it washed away the greedy need,
the moon madness,
and the anguish of the night,
and put to right
the balance I upset
by trying to live in your skin.

I love you.
You have that,
and all it means
but I can feel myself again,
and that woman had vanished
lost in a dream of longing
that stifled hope
and numbed the senses
from too much feedback,
too much stimulus,
and not enough time
to breath my own air.

I am here,
with a heart that knows your touch,
with a spirit wed to yours
that glories in the warm you give---
but I am myself again,
something we both needed
because you fell in love with me,
not the parts of you
I simply reflect.

So now when I ask you to find me,
you can look for a whole woman,
not a frightened dazzled child
all longing and need,
but little love visible.

The woman will ask for things
the child could not even dream.
And she will seem different
in ways you cannot imagine now.
But she is still me,
a woman who loves you,
possessed of a new calm,
a seperate peace,
and a still that came to me
as i stood in the sun,
put paid to pain
and redeemed a woman's heart.