Coffee And Cream Poem by JAMES T. ADAIR

Love should not be commonplace
Love should be bold
Love should reach out and touch
And be there always to comfort and hold

Love shoud feel tender and soft
and it should guide and protect
and feel like a soft hand of comfort
and be based upon care and respect

Love should not boast or seek an upper hand
Love should shed a tear and always seek to understand
Love should be humble and not of greed
Love should show compassion in time of need

Love should be expressed often and with soft touch
Love should take time and not rush
Love should tickle inside and years later still make you blush
Love should be more lasting than a crush

Love is the way I imagine my hands caressing your face
and the feel of your satin, your skin and your lace
and the feeling in my heart that I don't wish to run from or chase
love is my only dream, my only destinaton, my only place

When I think of love...I shed a tear and call out your name
because without you, it could never be the same
Love should be two hearts that cling together as one in the same
and it feels suddenly more than just an empty game

And if love is just imagination of a dream
I'm in it is seems
and only you can set me free
and be the coffee for my cream


© James T. Adair