Lay your hands gently upon my naked heart

     blend, meld, coalesce into one

     whisper in refrain heard by lovers

     aglow in the darkness of our need

Lay your hands gently upon my naked heart

     stroke rhythm of unfolding love

     expose the passion in our hands

     polish the evening of sapphires

Lay your hands gently upon my naked heart

     share the breaths of life

     slow fingers of August heat

     scented emotions clinging

Lay your hands gently upon my naked heart

     two hearts and two souls

     deep amethyst shadows

     strolling together at dusk

Lay your hands gently upon my naked heart

     harnessing our storms

     unleashing our ardor

     sharing moon’s first glow

I love you in

The morning light

I love you when

The moon shines bright

I love you with

My entire heart

Not just a piece

Or one small part

I love you in

The summer time

Watching waves

That sing in rhyme

I love you in

The coldest winter

When ice splits skin

Like a splinter

I love you when

We fight & glare

When neither of us

Can come up for air

I love you when

We joke & play

Those days we'd never

Wish away

I love you when

You laugh & smile

& even when

You're sad awhile

I love you when

You're such a dummy

Even more when

You're being funny

I love you more

Each new day

I love you more

Than words can say

I'll love you always

Until the end

I'll love you always

My lover, my friend

©CJ

"There'll be Water in her Tracks"

Saith the Boy

"That's how you'll know

It's

Her"

We know that Earthdom abides

and Heaven is a place with unlimited rides,

I don't recall how I gathered this all,

But I'm able to take that in stride.

You are a cosmic smile,

Gently rock me back and forth 

between your lips until I'm calm enough

to wrap my pounding heart within the sweet, serene song of our love.

Hearts, stars and mushrooms,

Her mind and my heart

keep breaking us through.

Cigarettes and night skies,

we wonder if the stars remember us too...

You are an ebbing grin 

and waves of assurance invite a gazing within.

Thought pebbles grow into belief

and as we learn more,

it gets harder to breathe.

You might know friendship, 

You definitely have experienced lust, 

You probably have fallen in love, 

But when you meet your soulmate.....

OH, your soul sings.

You are whole, in a way you never knew,

You are able to talk without words,

Feel each others emotions, and 

Hear your heart beat as one. 

For when you find your soulmate, 

Your soul is truly complete. YOU are complete.  

When you hear the word “soulmate”, you immediately think of the person you are to spend your life with in a romantic and/or sexual way; your husband, wife, partner, and lover. But a true soulmate encompasses so much more. There are so many different types of soulmates in the world because the category cannot be so narrowed to the mainstream way of thinking. It is my belief that you can have more than one soulmate simply because humans are so complex and filled with such different thoughts and emotions.

When you do find a soulmate, your heart soars; it beats more strongly than ever before because your soul is rejoicing in finding a missing piece. Ever met someone for the first time, but it feels as though you’ve known them forever? Or felt the urge to speak to a complete stranger because something is drawing you over? How about the confusion you may feel because you experience an attraction to someone that you never anticipated you would (for example, finding yourself attracted to the same gender if you identify as heterosexual)? Your soul knows what it wants, and actively seeks those people to help you feel complete.

In Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. This did not explicitly imply a physical relationship; moreover, the people that were split were male/female, male/male, and female/female. This in and of itself should lend support to the idea that there is more than one type of soulmate.

Soulmates can be found based upon such things as similarity, love, romance, comfort, intimacy, sexuality and sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility, and trust. Have you ever felt so close to a person that you cannot understand why you are in separate bodies? You can love a person without being “in love” with them and the emotions and actions that said emotion entails. You can find comfort in similarity with another person. Intimacy is not strictly limited to carnal lusts; speaking of things no one else knows and sharing personal information requires a special bond, as well as compatibility and trust.

It is my belief that there are a lucky few people in the world who have truly succeeded in finding and reconnecting with their missing half. The rest of us may be joined at the foot to our best friend, by our torso to our lover or partner, the head by someone who stimulates and challenges you intellectually, and your heart by your spiritual equal. And while you can be content and quite happy with these different pieces coming together to make you whole, you might just have the fleeting thought that something might be missing. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but there’s an emptiness there. Simply put, you haven’t found the final piece of your soul, your final “soulmate”.

My companion in this life

I haven't met you yet

You and I have ample strife

Of life's blood and sweat

You wonder where I am

Where are you too?

Will the grace of God's big hand

Bring me close to you?

I miss you as the nights are long

I miss your body near

Weird to think I miss your song

When there's nobody here

I know your there longing for me

As I do long for you 

Let's pray the fates will turn the key

So one will turn to two

I'm afraid it's true

I say now to you

A soulmate exists

Only deep within

Prayer, solitude

Not a sexy dude

The sheer sophistication of her presence

Causes the room to fall silent as

She glides across the mahogany floor

As if walking on air, though

There are no airs about her.

Men clamor for her attention

And women wish they could be her

As their amber eyes morph to emerald

Her beauty and grace tempered

The room as each melodic tone

From the saxophone caressed

Her ears like lovers from her past.

Men whose tears now bottled

Upon a shelf in her heart, as

She vowed to each one

How special they were

Never negating their

Strength as a man,

But knowing within her soul

They were not her one and true mate.

Her head sways to the music

As her hips follow in a trance

Commanded by each beat of the drum.

Engulfed by the pulsing sounds

She swirls around and around

Forgetting she is not the only one there.

From across the room, he stares at her

In amusement, wondering who is

This woman who has grasped the

Attention of both men and women.

The pursuit of his happiness

Consumes him as he approaches

Her with caution, not wanting to

Disrupt her groove.

Their bodies move from time

Into eternity as they dance

The night away. Their embrace

Grows stronger with each

New song played.

Their hearts now intertwined

By chance and circumstance

As souls mate on a first date

However, this is not a one night stand.

Love’s call is answered

By the beating of their

Hearts, pounding together

In sync with the rhythm of life.

He inhales as she exhales

Forming a symbiotic relationship

the two are now one.

Kisses consummate

The dance shared

In this secret ceremony

Conducted by a jazz band.

As wind instruments

pronounce them man and wife,

Tickled ivories laugh

With glee at this union

Of souls bound together

As they transcend through

Space and time.