Early Morning Thinking About You by Vicente Reyes

Early Morning Thinking About You

Well I wish so many things were real between us.

It is so amazing to me that after all this time

And so little contact that you should be so warm in my mind.

But there is tenderness in your voice and such a gentle spirit in you

That in my moments when I am most alone,

When I am in the midst of intellectual endeavors,

Especially in the wee hours of morn,

The image of you wells up and I want your presence.

It is as if you live in my mind like a vision of beauty I can revisit.

I think of your soft kisses and the way

Your feminine form feels to me as I hug you when I do.

It makes me want to hold you for hours,

It makes me want to feel you close to me,

It makes me want to love you endlessly.

Your eyes stay in my mind as if I have loved you for years,

As if you have been mine forever, as if... as if...

Yes, I know it has not been so but it feels so natural

I am reviewing my thoughts about reincarnation.

I mean, how can I feel this way unless maybe

In another lifetime we were, I mean really were, close?

I am not senseless. I also do not so easily love so deeply.

Yes, indeed, the heart has its own logic.

Why do I want you in my arms?

Why do I feel your body and mine can entwine

And we blend as one with kisses around the clock?

It is not merely desire for the pleasures of love.

Those are as known to me as familiar paths to a runner.

Oh touch alone is but a physical sensation,

Yet I want to reach for that which I see within you.

If one can desire to swim in warm waters it feels to me

My spirit desires to bathe in your light.

I want our auras to mingle and if the flesh can feel a tingle,

Then so be it. So let it be. May it be so.

I smile because I make it a decree.

Oh do not resist it! Come share in my magic.

Perhaps in a country walk, holding your hand,

You could persuade me you are only just another woman.

But then again, if it is love from which we should flee,

Generally speaking,

We might as well try to suppress the rising of the sun.

We can run from it, but it is there, bright and bold

Even in the face of the darkest, deepest, thickest clouds.

But there is no storm that can keep my love for you from shining.

I want to be a candle in the dark.

I want to be something warm you can hold in the night.

I want to shine on you too,

For I too carry that little light within me.

And yes, it is never easy to speak about things that cannot last or cannot be.

Even the sky changes from day to day.

But oh beautiful one, before the season is gone

And the winter sets in and we are so far far from each other forever...

Share in the magic. I do not want to miss a moment with you.

You are so precious I wish I could pause the hands of time

When with you and let it be an eternal moment.

Yes, I know even as we speak the winds of time and fate

Impose so many obligations and duties,

And we are so tied to so many things

It is hard to even meet these days. Still, I want to try.

Surely there is an island of time for you and me.

Before the calling of the sails and the journey out to sea...

I want you so much.

Oh I could say so much to you

And I want to try to tell you so much more;

We could always talk about the weather, after all.

It was early morning and I was thinking about you.

Vicente Reyes

July 22, 2000

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