I've Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is declaring love.

Today’s poem declares love for a long-separated loved one.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I've dreamed of loving you for many years,

Loving you each day and night, each hour,

Loving till each moment turns to tears

That flow into the garden where you flower.

Of course I must be me, as you are you,

But just as bushes planted side by side

So intertwine one cannot tell they're two,

So have I dreamed we would be unified.

And still I dream, though we have been apart

So long that I of you sometimes despaired,

Holding wounded hope within my heart

That through these frozen years my love be spared.

The world is a redaction of the dream.

My love’s beauty must my pain redeem.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ivedre.html. For more love poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years