We are who we are

Baby, there are just things I need to say.

Like how even when you are so distant,

my heart still feels your love so close.

I knew before ever knowing how much you mean to me,

in your vacant whispers where your love is always known.

Somehow today the sun shines brighter inside,

I love you more right now than any day before.

The way your eyes glare my way when you are upset,

just shows me that you care that much more.

In your touch that squeezes my life away,

I feel the warmth of passion so strong.

And when you walk away I notice,

how beautiful you truly are.

You say nothing to me sometimes and I know,

why you are the way that you are.

It isn’t lack of caring that drives you,

but how much you feel for me.

I knew I loved you before I knew love at all,

each moment we share means so much more to me.

I see you when you wake up and I am there to hold you,

say nothing in my ear if you have nothing left to say.

In your eyes I see just how much I mean to you tonight,

no amount of distance can break that apart.

You hold my heart in your soft and gentle touch,

making me love you in ways I can’t explain.

There is hope for us in these sufferings we endure,

for love is the ability we have been blessed with.

When you cry it is my eyes that water,

feeling what you feel upon my love I sing your name.

As the rage inside of you beckons to come out,

you can see it on my face as the lights fade away.

Someway inside I know that whatever we feel we share,

in love and light, in pain and death, we are who we are.









Johnny Newell