Before it all, was you

Perfection, always have I sought out to find.

Complication, was never there when I needed her.

Vindication, an image of light breaking the sky.

Purification, found only as I gave up my life.



In my eyes I have always seen the beauty left behind,

as waters crashed upon the shores of my life.

Blindly I fell away into this reason of hope with love,

unaware of what I would do to sustain this heart I cried.

Was this always the intent beyond reasoning fading faster,

or have I just been the very image of what I used to despise?

Seeing you here before me in nothing but the candlelight,

makes the shadows hide away as we come together.

You may not know this, but my heart is yours to hold,

in times of pain or when the sorrow is too much to take.

You have my love to keep you warm tonight my life,

in all ways that you can dream, my hope is in your touch.

I knew before the stars first shone their light upon my face,

that I would love you with more than my body could contain.

Before the first wave broke on the sands of time I could feel,

how your heart would love me in ways this world couldn’t explain.

Before the first breath was taken and before it was passed down,

I knew the only way to live was to love in death your heart.

Before there was a world to walk alone on in this time,

my everything was promised to one woman I have in you.

Before gods were created my existence held one truth,

with all that stirs within me, I was made for loving you.









Johnny Newell