Waves Crash, Warm Sand

[lisamilligan]

Waves crash, warm sand
Gold ring, your hand
I can't stay
Away from you
But I know my place

You held my shaking body
Remorse etched in your face
You know you’re not where you belong
But when you’re here
You belong to me
I can't make it go away
Not with the wine or the others
Or the lies I tell myself
About how I'm just lonely
And any man will do
Those words sound empty and hollow
I know what I want
And it's you

Cold white wine in crystal
While the fire crackles and glows
And my need for you grows
From the moment you leave my bed
The tension builds
Until I finally feel you inside me again
Caress your satin
Savor the taste of your kiss
Your breath against my thigh
Watching you
Watching me
You make me a little crazy

Waves crash, warm sand
Gold ring, your hand
I can't stay
Away from you
But I know my place

There's a difference
Between feeling guilty and regret
Regret would be a knife in my soul
It's easier to let go
If the words of goodbye
Don't drop between us like heavy stones
Building an unscaleable wall

Now we go back to reality
As if nothing happened
Offices, people, meetings
I hate being trapped in this busy room
I don't need to turn around
To know you've walked in
I feel your eye's caress
That grabs me by the heart
And suddenly there's no air in this room
And I can't hear what anyone is saying
Over the pounding of my heart
And I can't see anything
But your smile

Who can say why
Life pulls two people together
Even though it’s sweet torture to be near you
Even if I have to settle for feeling your eyes on me
Where I want your hands to be
Where I want your breath to be
Even though you make me a little crazy
Here I stay

I can't forget those nights
The sound of your guitar
I can't forget how you taste
And how you feel
Or the look on your face when you're inside
The look that makes my heart move
I don't know if it's beating harder
Or turning over
Or breaking
But it hurts

I know making love isn't a contract
I gave you my heart
It's not something you can give back
Caught in the moment like a rabbit in a snare
You lean over me and reach for the seashells we collected
In small paper cups
The touch of your hand blows me away
Your breath on my cheek blows me apart
I want to race away from you like a sandpiper from the waves
But I'll let the passion I feel for you
Crash like waves all over my body
As I sit here acting unaffected

Waves crash, warm sand
Gold ring, your hand
I can't stay
Away from you
But I know my place

[jeannerené]

Lisa,

We never know where our heart may lead us, and sometimes the passion cannot be restrained ... even though perhaps it should be. Love cannot always be held to rules or reason ....

I enjoyed reading this very poignant and stirring inner dialogue. It's settings are very real and its emotion, raw and vulnerable. It moves the reader.

I am sending you an email with the password for a closed board to under 18 ... for this is a mature theme ....... but is however fine to leave here.

Thank you for posting....

.j.

[rocha]

Sensuous and bitter sweet tale...well wrtten.

[kimmyjean]

Excellent

Waves crash, warm sand
Gold ring, your hand
I can't stay
Away from you
But I know my place

Your verse says so much


Love and Peace
Kimmy

[davidmm]

lisamilligan,
The poem, as we can see, tells a "forbidden love" tale and tells it well with the thoughts and reasoning behind the need for that love.
I am sorry if I may sound a little over critical but I must mention certain points that you should bear in mind. It may sound easy to say "be original" when we can easily reply, "It's all been said before." A number of your phrases are cliches - one or two may be forgivable but too many spoil the poem.
I have said this before but here goes again - a duty, indeed a responsibility, of a poet is to be original. Originality makes a poem memorable and separates it from the mundane.
I look forward to seeing more of your work.