Outside a tender Texas breeze carries dissolving time away,

Minutes fall into passing hours as hours fall into a passing day,

I’ve loved you every moment of my life since my awakening came,

A first sight love came to me as I realized you would take my name,

Love carries lovers across time’s realm at speeds beyond the norm,

Those burdened with life that know love’s absence in some form,

Endure barriers of time’s resistance that slows each click beyond,

Hours can feel tenfold as tragedy unfolds before reflex can respond,

Has Father Time allowed Cupid to speed through barriers of time?

Has love powered happiness to fly so fast it could be a love crime?

Each time the Texas heat has caused my rigid form to loosely flow,

Always she is near to hold me tight in a display of love only we know,

She has awakened my worn form with a kiss of love that regenerates,

At thirty my hair was white, still I live with a deep pain that penetrates,

The blood flowing through my veins breaks away from broken veins,

By love’s counterbalance I’ve survived hurdles as your love remains,

No doubt there’s a price to pay when living in a world made of dreams,

My heart has felt your heartbeat against bare flesh yet it always seems,

I’m yet to feel your bare flesh to mine as each time is always the first,

My hungering for you can’t be explained nor can this incredible thirst,

Dreams of love wrapped in happiness will speed rapidly towing time,

There’s never enough long minutes in play as I’ve said often in rhyme,

Lose that love or be starved of her and journeys will exceed the limit,

Time will stretch the very fabric of space dragging out every hour in it,

“Modern* English” coined a phrase “I’ll melt with you” still it holds true,

Melt came to be used in love verses, I’ve used it often in rhymes to you,

Our first kiss came to be while shielded from Texas heat that love day,

My love was born two years prior but with that kiss my love would stay.

The end, by Pat for Patti.

I love you

Those kisses? They’re from me and of my lips.

*Popular rock band from the 80’s and 90’s.