By Cheryl L Hosman
If you could be loved
The way you want to be loved
Would it be
Sweeter…slow and tender
Like old lovers who know
That their time is running out soon
So what is left is savored
Like a wine left on the shelf
To ripen to its optimal self
Finally to be drunk with appreciation
And gusto?
Would there be
More pleases and thank yous
In your life by those who love you
Sharing with you a sense of gratefulness
And genuine warmth
For all you do for them
Each and every day
And would their recognition of you
Make your eyes sparkle turquoise blue
Like the Caribbean on a windless summers day?
If you were loved the way you want to be loved
Would the caresses be long and lingering
Melting your body into care-less-ness
Where nothing mattered but the moment
And your chassis didn’t keep track
Of the movement of the sun across the sky
Because your skin was once again
Alive and free feeling the winds of change
Blow across you?
Would you allow that love that you need
To grow through compassion and grace
Could you be patient whilst you were being discovered
Through the eyes of a virgin
Trying to look into your soul
To help you obtain what your
Heart truly desires?
Or would that kind of love
Be muted because you were still
Discovering what you need
After all of those years void of intimacy
Afraid to wish for
Those things you
Never imagined could be yours again
But can be awakened if only you ask yourself ….
How do I want to be loved?
Gardy Loo Pismire 