don't get me wrong baby

or let these words fade 

to redundant or cliche 

when the easy can be seen

so easily over hard

and all I never used to say

flows now as though

it was like something 

I have always said

when I have been 

so shrewd with love

for the times I've let 

the Trojan Horse roll in

as the dangerous hollow 

of what a thing

pretended that it was

and then swore myself

to never offer up

what wasn't solid 

to the core

don't let the way

that it can look 

lie and say that

I have come here

with the emptiness of lonely

when life has been lived

more with an eye

for keeping out the danger

than needing anything

of any sort at all

and the solitary hours

have been the kindest

in the end

when being a friend

to self

is easier than what

the cost of love has been

so that this is a choice

and then not a choice

and courage is what is done

when you stay present

in what the journey asks

and all the times I say

I love you

are dares I play against myself

to stand in my own truth

even on the days

I stand alone

and make these wagers

against the costs

that I can not afford

but will pay for

just the same

absent of regret

so don't get me wrong baby

this is not desperate

nor naive

but love as pure

as something newly born

into a world

where it must find its way

with no mercy coming

down the line

and yet it spreads its wings

as Icarus aspiring

for the sun

because you are 

that much light

and it is worth the attempt

of the hopelessness

of the grounded taking flight

to aspire for just close enough

to let you know

that this is how deeply

inside this solid heart

that you are held

in love