Words inadequate, certainly, but nonetheless expressive to my best friend, my confidante, my faith, my joy, my lover and my most precious wife, Cher.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Imagine...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
To Cher: Letter 6
Once in a lifetime something so majestic awes you, something so extraordinary it takes your breath away, this something renders you speechless, something like you comes into one's life, carries a heart in the breeze, across barren lands and salty seas into the sun.
You, yes you, my Sweet, my Cher, my breath... oh since I found you, I have discovered more about myself and the depths of soul in one month, than I knew about myself in all the days of this present existence.
I learn something wonderful about you and how we find the perfect way to love one another, each and every day. I am awe-struck as I stand in your light, unbridled passion untold, my heart is forever yours, from this life to the many others we will share.
I now know how awe-inspiring, joyful and wonderful love can be. You are truly the most sweetest and loving person I have had the honor to be in the presence of. When we spoke those words, "I do" and "I will" on that late evening August 30, I did not know how much more my heart could soar. I am lost in you, you are the honey on my tongue, the sweet of a kiss, the breath of life that fills me and makes me to live in a world of bliss.
I know that no matter what comes our way... together we will make it through and one hundred hundred years from now, our love will be discovered written on the tablets of time for all to read.
Kiss my breath with your heat, drip honey from your words, touch me in depths no person has ventured to reach, seek me in the sun, find me... together we will always shine.
I am so in love with you, immeasurably.
Your Man,
Stefan
Thursday, October 16, 2008
A Letter - I Am In You
In the mist of your dreams, I am encamped, waiting...
Kisses encompass your mind, where warmth excites and love ignites.
Windswept sands upon a distant shore, wait patiently... footprints of two.
Lay back your head into the blue, I am the wind's gentle, sensual breath.
Movements in time beckon our return, a place shared, a garden of romance and beginnings.
Crashing waves and ocean sprays separate the symphony of music heard only by two, now mere moments away.
Bring me there, bring me unto that shore, love calls my name.
Breathe easy, breathe ever so steady upon embers igniting into flames.
I reside within your dreams, I am flesh encompassing your soul and the pulse of your veins.
Seek me within and find me there, strokes of passion I leave you with love,
nectar sweet deep permeates soft pastel warmth, I give you my love to hold.
Rest your head upon my heart, dream 'til our footprints bed sand where the sea meets the shore.
I love you, Cher.
Your See-Saw
I Found You
to the depths of dark rolling current in a sea of unrest, I found you.
Sands of silica too numerous to count, one grain among the settled sediment, I touched you.
Swiftly racing through the gleaming celestial bodies, I caught a glimpse of you.
In an existence past, I wandered amid a field of roses, vivid and vibrant hues surrounded me. Breathing your fragrance you heightened my senses when I found you there.
A millennium of seasons cast me into a safari of beasts, among them the flitting wings of a butterfly whispered its wings across my tender lips and I kissed you there.
I am so happy I found you, sweet Cher, my loving wife and best friend,
See-Saw
Autumn Want
O'er an ocean of deserts, plains, mountains of evergreen blankets to that golden distant sea, want stirs.
Come unto me, pursue my desire, come now to my embrace, taste quivering febrile lips exquisite, rapturous she whispers upon the breeze.
Solicitude seductive reaches his distant shore, dreams and slumber fall into the rising sun. Gentle wind encompassing, enchanting rush becoming, awakens passion wanton of another shore where Autumn paints hue vibrant seasons. Breathe deeply all wanting, sail across inhibitions and be free.
Hearts aflame permeate souls, lives spurned before life, unite, breathing one breath. Touch now the face of Beauty, fingers comb ringlets of bronze, draw from her breath, life. Kiss lips of crimson, soft and trembling, lost in an abyss of ardent hunger, flesh pressing, Autumn's breeze ablaze upon a bed of fallen color, Beauty becomes one.
With all I am, I proffer you my life...
I love you, Sweetness.
Sleep well and dream sweet. I appreciate you, adore you, thank you for the gentle way you care for my heart... you stole my heart long before words and we were flesh.
Your See-Saw, best friend, lover, and husband.
Touch Me Where Denial Does Not Exist
Stretch forth your heart, touch true within me, seek my soul.
Savor flitting butterfly kisses of nectar sweet.
Universal One bring to me this sun, shine upon me her Autumn song. Spring forth and touch my soul, take my breath and bring to you its taste, its heat.
Love me as you love the season of your heart, taste my love upon your tongue, drink from me and know I am true. Touch where denial does not exist. Reach depths within, where the sea meets the shore.
Speak... nothing remains to utter, I drown myself in you, where the sea meets the shore.
I am so in love with you,
Your husband and best friend
A Letter - The Defender
No matter what befalls you, whether dark looming clouds, torrential rain rising
I will be radiate as a sun to chase it all away.
I will always stand beside you when everyone else leaves you alone.
When you feel faint from the woes of life, my arms will protect you from the fall. As the winds from irrepressible storms blow against you, lean on me.
My assurance will guide you through an opaque mist of doubt.
Whenever you fall, I will lift you up higher. If your heart is heavy laden, I will take your yoke upon me and bear you load.
Always in your garden, I am the fragrant gardenia. I will never leave, just close your eyes and I am there.
I am whatever it is you need, just call my name. Whisper gently into the night, scattered breath across the waves, and I will come swiftly, sheltering you from the cold.
I will remain always your protector, your defender, your faithful knight and always your best friend. When the ashes of my vessel pass over the sea, lift up your eyes and I will keep watch over you until we meet again.
Love always your only See-Saw.
Never Without You
I love you 'til the stars crash down into the dust and breathe anew. It is you....
Stefan
Heat
Too far is that distant shore some may say, only one would cross a thousand thousand burning deserts to reach you, to sway with you, to ignite the smoldering embers setting you aflame, to satisfy the wanton desires needful of quenching, to take you into a realm only few can enter. A desire to trace the trail your fingers have trekked, contemplative, desiring what could be. Stir, stir me...
Waiting For You
In the moment of coaction between crashing atoms we were there together...one. In that crescendo of exploding life, we became free to explore and discover. We are together again and what now will we do with the time allotted we have been given this time? What now will we do?
I love you.
Over The Horizon
Laughter and joy in the light is just over the horizon, a distance once oblivious to two. I will take the outstretched hand, breathe the breath of one, indulge in the fountain of joy, take you to depths of your soul you have long forgotten, I will take you there to that place, for therein lies the art which is you, before you were canvass and I the painter, we crossed the paths of celestial gardens only to become at this moment...one.
Let me breathe this fragrance...
A Letter - I Would Do That
I would do that:
Wait for you to walk into the door.
Greet you with a smile of happy you are home.
Loosen the clip and let your hair fall into my fingers.
Stroke your face with welcome back from the grind.
Take you into my arms and rewind the film so we see it together.
Let you know how joyful it is to have you home.
Take you into the fold of my arms, drawing you near me.
Ask you how your day went, with genuine concern.
Listen to you tell me what we have in the fridge and all the contents of the cabinets, try to remember all of the products you have in the bathroom.
Never criticize your frustrations with the cultists down the hall.
Try to remember that carbs are not a good thing.
Make certain the Audi driver is watching the road and not me.
Rewind the film again because lost ourselves in ourselves.
Rewind the film again because we lost ourselves in ourselves while the film was rewinding.
Turn the film off and lose ourselves in ourselves...
Oh yes, I would do that.
A Letter Of Longing
I was headed to the office only to realize the ocean was calling from me to seek you... to the place I have gone in days gone by to find you. Taking the train, you know the one, the one that lands you near the water's edge just beyond the highway.
I searched for paper in a pocket, took out my pen, strolled the beach and as I walked I penned these words...
Today I seek you to fulfill my thoughts. Baby, I walk along where the ocean meets the shore seeking all that reminds me of you, of us, of you. In the footprints embedded in the moist summer sand, where the tide has not yet reached, I imagine you have walked ahead, waiting for me to follow.
Broken sand dollars strewn across the sand I see broken promises made to a woman so dear, value of a life remains the same, yet gone unnoticed by the selfish ones, those devoted unto themselves. Shattered dreams embedded in the sand.
Just ahead, happy children's faces full of delight and discovery, laughter and innocence, draws me to ponder those days when we were young, how the world was ours. Nothing stood in the way of our dreams, our hopes for the future. Imaginary worlds we created where life was our joy, our tomorrow.
Passing a sand sculpture creator... a woman carved from the silica and minerals, his fantasy lady splayed for the combers to see. I stood there for a moment without comment, wanting it to come to life, call my name only to see you there. I turned away to seek that secret place where I have found you once on that winter shore. A time I desired you, whispering against the ocean spray, calling your name, listening for your voice, I found you there.
I have made it that peaceful, loving place. The place where four boulders emerge majestically from the sea, below the Cliff House, a place of solitude... the sea, the vast expanse of water... I am here to call for you. The pelicans look curiously on, the waves crash against the great weathered rock, millions of ages past carving into its surface, smooth like your skin... I lie against it, seeking its sun given warmth. Hear the ocean, hear the sound of two hearts transcending time and distance... I hear you there.
The ocean drips from my body, staining the ancient stone... I am alone with thoughts of you only, and the indescribable solitary beauty of this place... I await your heart from words spoken the evening before. You speak to my beginning, the part of me that was once you... my soul.
From this ocean we once were... splitting energy seeking to discover and to join anew in another time, another place. We found ourselves drawn to this place, this place amid the celestial expanse. The sea, the cradle of our lives here so many lifetimes ago, our home, I call out for you. On the breath of the breeze, you rush across my flesh, you are now here...
Captivated, you capture my mind, shadow my senses, I lie here only to welcome you, embrace my mind, reach deep within my thoughts, let me breathe your presence, bathe me with you.
The tide has changed, my day with you fulfilled... I leave this ancient stone amid the sea.
The phone rings... it is you!
Always,
See-saw
A Letter - Take Me Home
If I should pass from this life before you, the last image I desire to take with me is your beautiful face smiling into my eyes. The last breath I shall want to enter me is yours. You are all that is me, my completion lies within you. My Sweet, I am nothing without you...
I sit on the Bay's edge looking across the blue, the caps of white rolling into the shore, I think of you. Return me to that day of innocence when we were spread among the stars, we breathed together as one. Bring to me that day at this moment, this very moment, let it not end until the end, the day when our energies merge together and the universe begins again anew.
Speak to me the language known only to you and me. Words seems so inadequate...say nothing to me, touch me, feel me, allow the language to speak without sound, and I am yours always until the sky falls into the sea.
Baby, take me away... take me to your world, take me home to that place lying deep within you, the place of peace and joy eternal. Take me home...
I so love you,
Always your See-Saw
In Me
I give my life completely to you.
I live for your touch, your warmth, all you proffer my being.
All of my dreams are fulfilled, there is nothing that is part of who I am that is not yours wholly.
Complete me, hold all I am within you.
Walk strong in the light of my heart, boundless love awaits you.
Amid the forest of faces, I found you, only.
Baby, the awe-inspiring way you touch me, leaving no doubts, the look in your eyes, assures me. The want of kisses enthralls me, my Sweet. I know living without you is impossible.
Awaken me in a slumber of rest, tell me of your love.
Bring to my life smiles of utter joy.
Moments of intimacy you call out my name, heightening my senses, projecting me to a plane known only to few.
Whisper sweetly into the wind the passion within you, permeate my soul, release heaven screaming from every pore of my flesh.
Leave nothing to be taken, you give me all.
Hold me, reach out to me, I am here.
Immeasurable is your love and true, an angel of heart.
Baby, I am so in love with you at this very moment, nothing you desire is denied.
Across The Turbulent Sea There Is Love
Across a turbulent ocean of land and sea,
In the dark shadows of contemptible wolves, I've waited for you.
Fog swirling, mist blinding, your apparition brief, turns to the eastern sea, engulfing completely holds you distant.
Dante's Inferno inscription lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate looms foretelling over that distant barrier.
Turning, I walk into my sullen sleep, wanting not of it,
desiring only this treasure, this summer joy, this celestial beauty vanishing deep into that swirling, relentless mist.
Time passes, waiting, watching the movement of hands sweeping numbers, waiting...
Her voice quickens embers simmering beneath patient harboring ashes. Her gentle breath melts away this cerecloth shroud releasing the warmth of cinders now blazing into flames.
A time of laughter, a season of summer in the mist of a cold winter.
Tales unveiled, stories shared, photograph picture memories when life was cold and turned hearts to stone.
Touching softly words of yearning, desiring, shadows through journeys peak our fear. Words left unspoken, crash to the ground, seeping swiftly into the sand.
Placing bricks in a wall, erecting fortresses against our will.
Hope of the coming dawn, as a distant sea carries her wraith over snow-capped mountains, through barren prairies, and scorching deserts ablaze until I stand in her sun.
Let your warmth envelope me, touch and trace my lips. Feel my tremor, let me consume you in my heat, hear the rush of wind escape every pore of my flesh, shouting your name.
Along the ocean's edge on our golden shore, in the rhythm of a sway, two merge into one, imploding fortresses and crushing fears, we wash them away forever into our blue western sea.