POETRY

LOVE (A COLLECTION)

POEMS ABOUT LOVE. ALL POEMS UNDER THIS SUBJECT ARE ON THIS PAGE. NEW POEMS WILL BE ADDED TO THE TOP OF THIS PAGE AS THEY ARE WRITTEN. THESE POEMS WILL BE PART OF COLLECTION FOR A BOOK BY MICHELLE SHARKEY.

BRUSHED

I brushed my hand on your face

As you slept

When I touched you

I got chills from my love for you 

I held you all night 

I listened to your slight snore

A whisper 

And was thankful for every breath 

You shared with me 

Your heartbeat

Though your shirt 

Squeezing you tightly 

So secure 

So right 

So in love with you 

You brushed your hand

Across my body as you slept

Subconsciously touching me

And I felt the warmth 

In your touch 

And in my heart 

You grabbed my hand 

To hold tight in the night

I kissed your head

I put my head against yours 

My mind raced through

All of the things you do for me

So sweet 

So kind

Gentle and caring 

Everyone sees it in your eyes

Your sweetness 

And when we are together 

We match in temperament 

People see our spark

Our connection 

Our genuineness 

My heart has been brushed by yours 

Painted by your light 

And as you slumber 

I can’t stop thinking 

I love you 

I love you

I love you 

TWO SHOOTING STARS

I sat on the beach 

And saw two shooting stars

I made two wishes 

And they were both 

to be with you

Just like the night 

After your office party 

Polynesian fire dancers 

lighting the sky 

We saw two shooting stars 

As you showed me your church 

And shared childhood memories 

I wished for you then too

I wished to be in your arms

for you to take my heart 

A wish for it to become love

A wish for love to be long 

I wished on the stars as they fell from the sky

As if I could reach them and make them mine 

Take them on their journey to the ground with just my hands 

Gently set them at my feet 

Step into them  

Let them encompass me

With their magical light 

And have my wishes 

come true 

KISSES

I kissed you in the rain

During the longest walk 

Under my umbrella, 

i held you so tightly

And in your arms,and me in yours

You kept me dry 

And warm 

and safe. 

We walked in the rain 

The shower

I wanted to last

And last 

Another drink

In another bar

But the walk 

in the rain

Went so far

As to take my heart

Out for you to see

By the sea 

we walked 

Drops from the sky

Together 

you and I 

And we kissed

PHOTO IN MY HAND

I hold a photo in my hand 

Taken as the sky erupted 

Midnight of the new year 

Hopeful kisses

We toasted to 2025

As she grabbed my phone 

To capture us forever in a photo

Lost in the moment 

Our lips met 

She kept snapping 

As we looked at the fiery horizon

And back at each other  

She took the photo 

the one I hold 

You glancing at me

As I watch the show in the sky 

She captured your eyes 

The way you look at me 

With twinkling in your eyes 

The glory of your gaze 

Shows me everything

DAYDREAMS OF NIGHT SCENES

Working in an engine room 

Smiling like it’s my birthday

All alone like a fool 

Cuz of you

Spinning in my mind

Images of you from behind

My calloused hands on your chest

Your soft kisses on my breast

Distracted and working 

Drilling a hole and cutting a tie

Burning like the yearning  

I felt in our kiss goodbye 

Daydreaming of Night Scenes

Passionate screams 

Heartbeat in my ear

Your body near mine 

Working worked up

Working out somehow seeing 

Your face and kissing it 

soon

Under the full moon 

On my boat by the sea 

You and me 

But for now I’m still working 

In the engine room

I WAS FINE

I was fine to be single

Maybe forever 

I was fine

I had been hurt

So I was safe 

Alone

No fighting or stress 

No one threatening my peace

Just the simple release of solitude 

In control of everything

By myself

No worries about losing myself 

Nothing damaged 

Nothing broken 

My days were mine 

Doing what I want 

By myself 

I was fine

But alone is lonely 

And the nights are too long 

The empty hole 

In my heart 

Existed  

But I was fine

Until I met you 

And I felt so free

And happy to be me

With you 

And I realized that telling myself 

I was fine 

Was a lie

I longed for the closeness 

You have given me

The protection you provide

I wanted to fill the hole 

With the way you care for me 

The softness you show  me

The compassion you gift me

And the intimacy I feel in your bed 

Loving your body 

On mine 

In Mine

Be mine 

Because only now 

I’m fine 

THE SECRET

So many secrets I have shared with you

But one I keep

I can’t tell you how I really feel

It’s too vulnerable for me

I tell you about the traumas

Like an open book 

But I’ve ripped out the last page

And I hide it  

I can’t tell you that I love you

I play the potential moment

Over and over in my brain

And hope you tell me first 

Or maybe you are keeping a secret from me

Maybe you aren’t ready either 

Maybe you will never be

Maybe you don’t feel it 

God I pray that’s not it

I feel it too strongly

Or maybe I feel it just right

It’s the secret I keep 

That I won’t reveal 

Unless you are holding a secret too 

One that you tell me

That draws me to you

And dissolves our secrets 

As two of us 

Becomes we 

IT’S STILL WORTH IT

If you break my heat into a thousand pieces

Loving you is worth it

If you wreck me into the ground 

Loving you is worth it

If you can’t stomach

A long term love affair 

Loving you is worth it

If you leave me to find yourself

Loving you is worth it

If we cease to be

Loving you is worth it 

If you want what I can’t provide

Loving you is worth it 

If you sail into the sea without me 

Loving you is worth it

If the mountains call your name to be alone

Loving you is worth it

If your job makes you a bachelor for life

Loving you is worth it

If the memory of us fades into dust

Loving you is worth it

If we part ways 

Crying through the nights and days 

Crush my soul 

Empty my heart of all I filled it with 

Put all my poems on the shelf forever 

Loving you is worth it

Just for this moment

Right now 

FEELING A CERTAIN WAY

I want to change my status 

So everyone knows

The way I feel

But My mouth is sealed 

About the love for you that’s real

If I tell on myself 

Will you break my heart? 

Will you be silent? 

Will you turn me away?

What have I done by falling in love? 

Why have I let myself tumble into 

Feeling this way? 

I love you 

But I won’t say it 

Afraid you will stray from it

So I show you often 

in kisses

Poems 

Handwritten notes

Cooking this dish

I made it with the love I have for you

Thinking of ways to show you

The love I’m scared to tell you 

Waiting for you to be the first one

Of us to say 

I love you

And I’ll wait 

I won’t say it

I’ll hide it 

In a way you a way that shows you 

Openly

But the world should know

That I love you 

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