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– A Stranger Love –

“I want you to want me…
I want you to need me…
I want you to love me. “

The words of my lover as we lay together,
desperate for touch,
aching for gentleness,
reminiscing of the pleasures and the pains
of all our past encounters,
making some sense of ourselves
in the retrospective memories
that we have shared across time.

We are so far beyond our years apart;
I see revealed the wanting in him revealed,
that truth withheld to me by an anger
that I could not recognize beyond my own;
Love hidden by pride,
entwined with the wanting
of what love I could not freely return.

Finding you again in the lonely world
has given me new life.
I have always wanted you.
I have always needed you.
All the love for you that I had forgotten,
and what strength it had given me.
I remember what that love was like
when we could not hold it closer.
I remember how beloved we could be,
when life and love were strangers.

-For Matt-

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