Do You Love Me As You Say? Poem by Mark Heathcote

Do you love me as you say?
Will you show me love in a new uninformed way?
Will you keep my hand on heart?
Never allow us a second's distance to be a part.

Will you show me how to be?
How I can find satisfaction in this ineffable sea.
To everybody else's dissatisfaction.
Will you love me? Will you teach me?
To be virtuous and yet; how to be, morally virtuously free.

And set my soul-running after me
Beneath the shining, stars bright.
Can you push back the tears?
That gathers and glistens in the night?
Do you love me as you say?
Will you show me?
Love in a new uninhibited way?

Will you keep my hand on heart?
And never let us to part
Oh do you love me as you say
Will god's angels bless our way?
Oh heartache don't dissipate
Don't drift away
Just; because I can no longer hear your footfalls.

In my heart today
Every beat that echoes in your heart
Is coming my way
No more day's lost-summer-song,
No more loneliness asking what went wrong!
No more reflection, when I'm alone.
Oh, my love because I know my love.

You're on your way back home
Because I just this second spoke to you
On the phone
And love it was never a minute
Or a second or an eternity too long.