Love Avowed

Tell me that you love me.
Don't speak of it today.
Tell me tomorrow, in a year,
in a lifetime from now-

Don't say you want me
Show me in your gaze.
Affirm it with your touch,
whisper it in the quality of my name-

Hold me as if you have to.
Like the absence of me pains,
your arms thus barren, the
void and the vacancy dreadful-

Have me like I'd have you.
In spite of the world,
without explanation,
and beyond all we
could ever imagine-