Love Poem

I have not loved you

Like this in quite awhile

Darling, let me touch you

Beneath your shy half-smile

Where mere words are not needed

And oft misunderstood

Oh darling, let me love you

Like you wish I would

Darling, I have not loved you

In quite this way before

But when you look at me like this

I want to explore

Your tender, unshaped longing

I see it in your eyes

I feel it in your heart-beat

And hear it in your sighs

Darling, let me love you

Not with grasp of skin on skin

But with a kindred fellowship

Of quiet listening

Where want meets, unrequited

On a snowy afternoon

And love meets every longing

Hush, the kids will be home soon…

© Janet Martin