From your lips comes a magical touch that heals while projecting love,

Sleep oh wonderful sleep befalls my soul when burdened too much of,

A lullaby from angel’s touch fell upon my heart as your lips touched me,

I’ve not woke alone in half a century though it may be difficult to see,

A soft breeze penetrates heaven’s doors carrying a tune of love through,

Intently whispering love words for me delivered on natures air from you,

A sun beam follows your love whispers to light the room as an awakening,

I’ve fallen in love so many times my heart so loves a loving you again fling,

It’s your heart, your tender little heart that rocks my soul into a deep sleep,

Wrap me up sweet angel, once more wrap me up as I always fall so deep,

I pray the night to be long that I may hold you long into the morning light,

My heart holds you forever as I absorb your beauty with diminishing sight,

I’ve no fear of darkness nor do I fear being alone as neither shall transpire,

A soft tender kiss has awakened my soul once more igniting within a fire,

Never to wander or wonder I’ve no need for either as your kiss says so much,

The sands of heaven tease my feet as your lips feel of a butterfly’s touch,

I project to endless spaces of fulfillment as my love expands to such extreme,

To float above the universe unexplained is beyond the boundaries of a dream,

Of you and through you I feel love’s warmth so deeply I shall never depart,

Your eyes captured me but it was your kiss that awakened love in my heart.

The end, by Pat for Patti.  01/07/2017

I ventured out on a transcendent journey to learn more of you,

Into a mystical enchanted place of uncharted waters I felt askew,

With no physical form to anchor my soul I flew into the unknown,

Flying untethered by physics I defied the laws of man we’ve known,

Will each star in the heavens welcome me home upon my return,

Once when drafted I was shunned by citizens to feel an odious burn,

Pray tell Ye of Creation that never again will I feel such painful slight,

It is now a century halved yet the memory haunts me every night,

Soon I entered a place I recognized yet I didn’t recall the place at all,  

Befuddled by my lack of memory I sought safety and a place to fall,

Where did I put the photograph I hold so dear? It will make things right,

As fast as I can think I saw snapshots of a misplaced sailor in the night,

In this place of familiarity I also see you through a dimensional peep,

I saw snapshots of you in deep worry while praying my life to keep,

The brokenness of your heart became overwhelmingly sad to me,

A small trickle has formed where teardrops dwell I am sorry to see,

Is my dark haired image of old embedded within your mind’s chamber,

Have I held you each night in your dreams far from this war’s danger,

While paying the draft boards due of forced slavery I wept at times,

For the loneliness of combat has no place while writing love rhymes,

It expands every emotion of love to such point it would surely burst,

Love is the answer to life’s dreams of which I have had a deep thirst,

To know true love is to know true heartache of which I am well versed,

Each morning upon waking thoughts of loving you always came first,

When found far from home for a year or more loneliness did reign,

Now through this dimensional foray I’ve journeyed to see your pain,

Love is revealed as I see from this journey you loved me as I did you,

From this revelation of truth my spirits soared just as high as I flew,

My journey of a lifetime has told me that loving you then was not in vain,

I’ve pulled away a particle of me that you will feel my love when in pain,

From the hourglass of my sand I’ve pulled away a fragment of my time,

It may seem insignificant but if you look hard you’ll find it’s my lifetime,

Oh sweet woman so beautiful say yes you’ll bare your breast for me,

At my life’s end I pray my every moment will be spent as your devotee,

Love is a heartache I knew well once upon a time when I was sent away,

To know you too endured the loneliness I felt is worth the pain of today,  

To find your presence in this unknown place I recognize sometimes,

I thought a miracle of fate until I saw us tethered by our love’s ley lines,

Wishing to comfort poor me I leaped through a dimensional boundary,

As I placed a particulate of my future into his heart I created a quandary,

When I touched his heart with love’s delight a sudden memory occurred,

Did I remember feeling suddenly better that night that now seems blurred,

I shortened my current existence by giving him the particle containing time,

Yet I now remember a burst of love one night that helped create this rhyme,

I have no need to travel the vastness of this place because you are here,

As I wrote my words of love on paper I recognized my creations so clear,

Every poem, rhyme and story written can be condensed into but a word,

They are attempts of assurance that my words of love for you are heard,

As I looked around in this place of magic I found answers I needed to know,

Came a whisper that said drink from the river of answers while in full flow,

But I only found answers to questions that created the questions anew,

Each time I departed it was an entry from the other side from which I flew,

Dimensional planes have no thickness yet they are too vast for one mind,

Best explained as a loop for time has no movement mankind will soon find,

As I exit to re-enter my lifetime fore and aft I can see where I stand today,

My fingers are placing digital ones and zeros to light up the iPad’s display,

I soon came upon a stranger that I recognized as being the future me,

When asked a question of how are you he said “open your eyes to see”,

He pointed with his finger directly at me and said “all of this is inside you,

The questions and answers are within you, look nearby you’ll find a clue”,

Tethered at my side not too far away lays my best friend and wife too,

Without loving you I would be empty with nothing for my fingers to do,

My best friend is my wife I’m happy to announce and to say it is true,

When I exit this dimension to enter the next I say “it will be loving you”.

The end, by Pat for Patti.

I love you baby.

As teardrops fell from an angels eyes I watched them fall to earth,

Each plant they touched enriched in color and increased in its girth,

When teardrops fall from angels eyes what anguish brought them forth

As angels smile their eyes light up, of this I do have a wisdom of a sort,

I’ve seen an angel cry tears of joy as her heart filled with wondrous joy,

As a joyful teardrop fell through earths sky a rainbow was seen to deploy,

Rainbows of beauty beyond words savored in my heart and in my mind,

Angel’s tears form a mist of mystery when clouds are impossible to find,

The brightest of rainbows come from angels filled with love new found,

Her beautiful eyes shone like diamonds in the night when I came to town,

Oh how it labored my heart to watch a tear form when I had to depart,

Yet came tears bringing joy to all but from my angel’s saddened heart,

A rainbow of angel’s creation came to be from my angel’s falling tears,

I wore a protective barrier of her and through war she soothed my fears,

Born for the other and to each other our eyes said yes before a word,

For five seasons I will pray she endures until my words are again heard,

From across earth came reflected sun from my angel’s sparkling eyes,

That created the streaks of shooting stars across our nighttime skies,

Do rainbow arches kiss the citizens goodnight each night back home?

Our little Texas town has given heavily to this war more than any known,

Rainbows from heaven fill earth’s sky born from but an angel’s tear,

Through eyes of mist I watched a rainbows birth as it became clear,

From an angel’s saddened heart came tears yet still brought joy to all,

A rainbow appeared from her teardrops mist as tears started to fall,

All I have is a photograph in form and it’s imprinted on this warrior’s soul,

I love that little angel and must find a way to return and depart war whole,

The brightest of rainbows shine from angel’s eyes answering love’s call,

Her sparkling eyes and dazzling smile will again lift my soul if I don’t fall,

Too she carries beauty in afterthought not realizing her photogenic face,

That this angels teardrops are falling for me seems to be so out of place,

I pray every rainbow of her heart and soul shall never bear burden for me,

When an angel cries from my joyful return are the only tears I want to see.  

The end, by Pat for Patti.  Written originally in 1968.  

Note:

Written from memory thus it may not be exact.

Still it means I love Patti with all my heart and soul.

Upon first sight we linked.

As I lay in thought of you the wings of a butterfly were heard,

In deep thought I felt I must put my feelings in descriptive word,  

With closed eyes I can see the sounds translated by my mind,

Where beautiful creatures fly I know you cannot be far behind,

I sank deeper into thought as I searched for words of perfection,

Too I wondered what it must be like to view near perfect reflection,

My consciousness views every angle in the mechanics of my mind,

As you walk towards me I can see a countering sway of your behind,

Tell me what it is I can’t see and perhaps I can see it through you,

Life is a gift and privilege no matter what I may have been through,

Often you have pulled me from eternity’s never ending beginning,

No matter my loss your touch tells me that a I am actually winning,

Too many qualify miracles by time spent together as reason why,

Thinking love grows with time even if wrongly married is but a lie,

No one knows of a never ending honeymoon we long ago began,

It started before that November night as from the church we ran,

Where light ends so ends our love thus we love forever in every life,

A ceremony of love is celebrated as night’s light blankets my wife,

My shine tarnished long ago yet she finds luster beneath my dust,

She is of gold, what shine I have is but a reflection of her on my rust,

Perhaps it’s true the angel of destiny slumbered as I entered the room,

Is that why I captured an angel’s heart ‘fore the angel came into bloom,

A tidal wave of emotion fills me from her touch or to breathe in her air,

Each love wave is filled with her essence penetrating my flesh and hair,

Diamonds and gold often share space with tarnished and worn jewelry,

If jewels and bracelets were without tarnish I would have no reason to be,

Yet that dull tarnished keepsake has value of heart for reasons unknown,

And she treasures my tarnish unconditionally her love for me has shown,

She is of gold and one day I too shall shine once again to be at my best,

November eight forty six years ago I peaked, of this fact I proudly attest,

Tonight’s air mixed with essence of her says the best has yet to come,

Truth be told only her touch can deliver me whole, then I’m again young.

The end,

By Pat for Patti.  I love you baby.  11/28/2016

Butterflies and alligators have created a lazy day that’s drifting by,

As I close my eyes in thoughts of you I watch you don wings to fly,

So high you flew until you touched the membrane of heavens shell,

You must have pierced paradise gardens as particles of heaven fell,

Each particle is filled with energy and enough love to embrace earth,

I’m already yours now yet the me that’s in love experiences a new birth,

What’s new is old and old is new so quickly that time lapses unto haste,

No longer do grains of sand fall but float through the hourglass waist,

Butterflies rest upon gators backs and crocodile’s cry out asking why,

Into the river of time our life’s flow in one direction gravity can’t deny,

With alligators and butterflies in tow our created existence is there,

Desperate with need for a year I caressed a photo and strands of hair,

My youthfulness was force filled with creatures of war’s misdirection,

I exited the forest of death desiring to caress the source of my affliction,

From the hilltop a white falcon flew towards me as if written a fairy tale,

Particles of heaven fell to touch upon me until war’s dark barriers fell,

Warrior’s redemption was to soon occur and return me to my existence,

A smile from an angel’s lips and hazel angel’s crystal was my occurrence,

For a minute I fell forever into love’s eternity resurrecting every emotion,

Cleansing of a warrior’s hardened heart normally occurs in slow motion,

Yet, from the touch of a fingertip my heart reunited with the love I felt,

Paradise Particles fell upon me removing darkness of what I was dealt,

As the falcon departed creatures of my existence suddenly reappeared,

There were birds of color, flowers, scents of roses that had disappeared,

Were they always there but my broken heart wouldn’t allow me to see?

I found difficulty walking without gravity upon my feet for traction to be,

I entered heaven on November 7, 1,970 years after our Lord’s final gift,

As love’s particles fell about, with the words “I do” I was no longer adrift.

The end, I love you Patti.  Written by Pat for Patti

Gravity has pulled upon my face with speed,

The years in my eyes are now a bloodshot bleed,

Somehow you’ve escaped the winged beast,

You’re so beautiful it would have a feast

Chorus 1

Love gives time the wings of speed,

I’ve rode the wings of time as if a steed,

Love’s delight pulses through my stuff,

Your loving touch is never enough,

The delights of love fill my heart with joy,

With every touch of your fingers I’m a little boy,

The years fall away and I’m once more young,

After so many years it seems we’ve just begun,

A dance with you is a dance on heavens floor,

Let’s do it all again before time closes the door,

On a journey of discovery we sailed the blue,

I’ve discovered loves delight just holding you,

Chorus 2

Love gives time the wings of speed,

Time is an excessive one-only breed,

When I try to tame the beast I lose,

A kiss from you is worth time’s dues,

Time moves slow but time will speed up too,

Time can crawl when heartache makes you blue,

Loving you gives the winged beast more speed,

I’ll ride the untamed beast until I no longer bleed,

(Repeat of First Chorus 1)

Love gives time the wings of speed,

I’ve rode the wings of time as if a steed,

Love’s delight pulses through my stuff,

Your loving touch is never enough.

The end, by Pat for Patti.  

I love you baby.