When I Think Of Love Poem by Marcquiese Burrell

When I think of love
I think of a heart expanding
Expanding so wide that it takes the good with the bad
and that's what comes when you feel something strong
Beyond your control, you see nothing but beauty in life
A beauty that won't lose it's glimmer

When I feel this love, I feel my heart
and it's overflowing
I needed this love, I needed love to bring me back
to a time of knowing

Sun shines upon the flowers after the rain they start blooming
and it's leaving none of the clouds, leaves no clouds looming
brightens up the scene
so peaceful, so serene

When I think of love
I think of a time when I didn't think there was a chance
I would ever feel it
At a time when I didn't think there was not any hope
I never believed it

Until that one day I was convinced, time moved so slow
I have had enough time, enough time to eventually grow
into someone
where life had begun

putting it's move on my heart
leave me open, leave me unguarded
to be soft and not as hard
as I would be before
within that internal war

The kiss of life breathed into me
Could it all be just a simple fantasy?
but i have learned to love, oh yes
it's not a fairy tale, it's very real

I was taught to look inside myself
where I would first find it
and once discovering that place
where i was safe
would soon find me in another place
a heart that burns for me
as it was created to
in someone else