BEFORE YOU (updated poem)

BEFORE YOU

Mystery and mysticism

Enchanting, enchantment

Beauty, beautified

Serenely serene

Before you

A woman to be adored, adorned

A woman to be loved, cherished

A woman to be by your side

Before you

All your dreams come true

Before you

I am here

I am there

And here I will stay

With a love that will adorn you

A lover, a best friend

Before you to the end

No mask, no makeup

No adornments

Before you just as I am

A pure essence within

A pure and simple woman

A woman without an ego

Oh boy how I let the go!

A woman that fell down

A woman who rose much stronger

A woman who is not ambiguous

All that you see is so clear

All that you will feel is so, so clear

Dear, dear

This woman has a heat in her heart

One that will die, fly

This heart flies, flies

So, so high

A heart, heat that you will never eliminate

It’ll burn, burn easily

Breezily, breezily

Like the winds, the sun

The strongest maelstrom

Will never fan it out

So I now I scream and shout

THIS WOMAN BEFORE YOU

Are you ready?

Are you steady?

Will you be ready?

Can you be steady?

Before you this woman before you

Would, could you love her?

Love her for who she is?

Not the adorned woman

But the stark naked woman

Would you be vague with her?

Would you be truthful with her?

Would you lead her into confusion?

Or be absolutely truthful with her?

Can you be the man for her?

Without judgments!

Before this woman

Would you, can you be her strength

Her everything

Before her

Before me

Can you be?

Be her light in the dark

She’ll be yours

Can you shed tears for her?

Like she’d shed them for you

Before you

Could you tame her restless spirit?

Before it takes over her

Tame her but never lame her

Before you this woman

Would you put her through hell?

Because she would be able to tell

And run, run away

Before you, you and you

She has made mistakes

But she is no fake!

She has erred and erred

But she is human, humane

Before you, you and you

She is caring, kind and gentle

And will always reside

With each and everyone’s hearts

Would you, could you be her hero

She’d be your hero, never a zero

Oh before you

She could never live without her sunshine

Her sunny, sunny sunshine

Oh before you!

Her dawn is just beginning

Hopeful, optimistic

Cheerful

Without a shadow of doubt

Before you

This woman will adore you to the end

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

9^th July 2016

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