The Candle Burns.

You take my hand and pull me up

We dance in the darkness of your room

Our love– a fresh bloom

The aroma of cinnamon, I breathe through my nose

The music flows around my ears, a song I chose

But I hear nothing,

Nothing except

The beating of our hearts.

Pressed up against one another,

Joining together.

I close my eyes and sway with you,

I lose myself in the man who will someday

See me through

The candle burns

As my arms wrap tighter around your neck

There is no place I would rather be

Than here in your arms,

Where I feel most free.

A Mask.

These thoughts are lost in the maze of my mind, shoved all the way down

Making it simple to smile– easier to hide that frown

My heads up and I’m pushing through,

even if it seems like the hardest thing to do

Because the rain feels harsh on my cheeks,

but it can’t rain for days,

not even for weeks

To stand out in the pouring streams from the sky

will only last so long—eventually I’ll need to get dry

A time will come when the rain, it stops

and all of my heavy clothing, it drops

Here I’ll stand, naked and exposed

right in front of you,

no longer disclosed

I pray you take me for me

and in my eyes,

there’s no longer a wall blocking what you see

Uncovered, unsealed, ready for you

if only you’ll still be waiting,

waiting to see that view

Because the calm of the storm will turn to a soft hum,

sort of like the strings on a guitar that strum

Though the song now, it’s loud

It hurts my ears

This song now, it brings alive all of my fears

But the music continues to play,

even as I desperately pray this song away,

But I know soon, a new song will come on,

and that song, it will be forever gone

Just a distant memory,

of the person I was once expected to be

And your song, it’ll play louder

it’ll overpower my distant thought

and make me forget about the demons I once fought

But it won’t hurt my ears, no,

it won’t make me feel the need to lie low,

I’ll be screaming the lyrics of our love,

which I won’t feel I’m undeserving of

Although I may need a while,

to not have to hide from you

when I don’t have that real smile

But as for now,

negativity, it has no place,

there will always be a

smile on my face