
Real Love
By La Belle Rouge
it was real, so genuine it pierced my heart
with the quick strength of a searing. steel knife
heated by your fervor to cauterize my wounds
oh yes, there were wounds, too many to count,
there were deep scars and spots still too tender
to ever expose them to another soul, no never
all inflicted by what I once thought was forever
soon blown away by winds of adversity, abuse,
until I knew I did not, could not, love anymore
feeling there was nothing to wait for, to live for,
until I tasted sweetness of your true devotion
before I had even tasted the ardor of your lips
I am newborn in flames of such authentic love
damaged growth pruned away by healing hands
new limbs reach toward love’s tangerine sun
oh God, I did not know love could hurt so deeply
heal so efficiently, mystify and satisfy completely
there is a forever kind of love, we have found it
your are the part of me that was missing until now
you are the one my heart sings and dances for
beneath fierce waterfalls where deserts once lay
feminists say I am complete without a man’s love
I am too much woman to believe such nonsense
I never felt full, whole, until you gave me your love
never felt the completion of my body until we joined
this is unending dedication of heart, soul and body
I want to live with my hand in yours, all my days
when my days are finished I want to die in your arms
peacefully leaning on the shoulder that supports me
through all the joys and sorrows of a lifetime together
LBR 12/29/2014