Couple

C’mon in tonight

I’ve been lonesome

I’ve been empty like

a well in long drought

Sitting here, still listening

to many a love song,

taking

the dreamer’s road

where all I can see is you –

finer than rainbow rings,

lovelier than the scent

of a thousand blooming roses.

Tonight,

as couples unite

and find love in the middle

of their warm embrace

all I want is you…

to come over without

the look of a stranger in your eyes

And without delay, your fingers

fitting perfectly between mine

as you love the all of me.

Maybe I’m too poor

to drive you around in fancy cars

or send you a basket of roses

or bathe you in a shower of diamonds

But it’s the thought of you

that gives my heart no rest

So I ask that you be with me

even if it were just this once.

85 Degrees