I hadn't originally intended to keep going with DESPERATE DESIRES, but part of me just wouldn't let it go.
"Heart's Call" was written for Goku, based upon an agonizingcase of unrequited love I'd once suffered through. This poem represents a scene in AND THE GREATEST OF THESE, one that a friend of mine later said gave him chills. Then he saw this poem and got the shivers all over again. I love doing that.
"Heart's Call"
night after night
when all the world seems cold and dark
I lie awake and stare into the shadows
thinking of you
my heart aches and my eyes burn
from unshed tears that will not fall
no matter how I need to cry
oh God, why do you haunt me so?
what is it about you that calls to my heart?
why does it take only one smile from you
to turn my world all upside-down?
and only one day spent apart from you
makes me feel so hollow inside?
how do you remain so calm, so placid,
when all I want to do
is fly apart like a lost and helpless whirlwind?
Is it love? lust?
passion? need?
what are you to me?
what am I to you?
am I anything at all?
are you my heaven?
are you my hell?
why can't you hear me screaming your name?