Door To Your Heart Poem by Linda Marie Van Tassell

First a footstep, followed by a shadow;
and then there was a knocking at my heart.
I saw your lips move, but I did not hear.
The words were cast, and my world fell apart.

You were so distant; and now you are near,
standing so near and yet standing so far.
One glimpse and I am dancing on a cloud,
hitching my moon to the spark of your star.

I tremble in hands of exultation,
as a feather on the wings of the wind.
This happiness is intoxicating,
and it brightens the world from end to end.

I am restless like dreams on a pillow
or the keys of a piano in pause
or an actor taking his final bow
before an audience with no applause.

I am captivated by your beauty.
My life! My love! Fall in love with me too
as gazes collide the very first time
and mine sends the message that I love you.

I am tormented by the great distance
between two breaths on the verge of a kiss
and the scattering of all my senses
and arrow-like glances colored with bliss.

Elation wakes like blooms in a garden.
The lamp of love its joyous rays impart.
Steal me away in your rapturous gaze,
and let me knock on the door to your heart.