Linda M. Crate- Two Poems

i want to be loved for me 

 

i want to be alone,

but i don't 

want to be lonely;

and i need someone to understand that

i need my space but i also want

someone to fill some of

my empty spaces

i know it's a paradox but we're all contrary in some

way or shape or form 

i am me

will not apologize for needing my

alone time

i have words and worlds and stories

that need to flow from me like

honey from the rose bud

or wine from the glass—

i have a great hunger to love and be loved

yet to retain my wildness

to be free and not have to surrender

simply to be accepted for who

and what i am as i have always done

for my friends.

our love

 

i wish 

you loved me the way i do you

unrequited romances always

sting me with the

fury of a thousand wasps straight

through my heart,

and i only want to kiss those

perfect lips and to be

held in those

strong arms;

i wish i stood a chance with you

but i doubt i'm the type

of woman you

would fall in love with—

everyone tells me 

i am beautiful,

but i don't always see it;

not your typical

beauty queen

everyone

falls for,

but i burn with heart and passion and soul

i am a light that 

never dies—

marry me beneath the moonbeams

let the ocean of wild 

emotions in me

be tamed by the curve of 

your body against mine,

and let us be wild

untamed by the world and time

simply spilling over a river

of love

tripping over syllables like a 

laughing girl

as we fall in and out of 

one another;

let me be embraced by your laughter

we'll change the world with

our love.