Poems of Love And Romance


INDEX

  • YOU GAVE NEW LIFE TO ME
  • MEANT TO BE
  • MY OASIS
  • PRISONER OF MYSELF
  • SHIPS IN THE NIGHT
  • THE MAN I WAS

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    YOU GAVE NEW LIFE TO ME

    Like the caterpillar, I would crawl
    along life's tree, with branches tall,
    inching my way to what would be
    my final days, my destiny.

    Instinctively, I'd spend the day
    tasting life and love along the way.
    I dreaded what was coming soon,
    confinement in my dark cocoon.

    I'd anchor firmly to a branch,
    in silken fibers, I'd entrench.
    I was both solid and secure,
    but loneliness I did endure.

    Like the summer breeze, you came.
    I knew I'd never be the same.
    You gently touched me with your hand,
    my metamorphosis began.

    I fought and struggled to break free
    of binding threads that repressed me.
    You saved me from my certain death,
    reviving me with your soft breath.

    I was the butterfly, that's sure.
    The wind beneath my wings, you were.
    You carried me to heights unknown
    to those who live by bread alone.

    Through fields of passion, we would race,
    and then we'd dance in an embrace.
    We loved as none had loved before,
    yet, our hunger called for more.

    We knew this fervor would not last
    and vanish in a wintry blast.
    Yet, still we dreamt that our endeavor
    would never fade, but last forever.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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    MEANT TO BE

    I believe in destiny,
    that certain things were meant to be.
    I believe fate has a hand,
    the future's not ours to command.

    I believe it was kismet,
    that's the reason why we met.
    I believe chance played no part
    in the way you won my heart.

    I believe the stars did say
    that our love would be this way.
    I believe you'll soon discover
    I will be your friend and lover.

    I believe that we could be
    together for eternity.
    Believe in me, as I in you,
    then our wishes will come true.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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    MY OASIS

    In a barren emotional desert, I found myself so lost and apart,
    aimlessly wandering, from place to place, for what had seemed forever.
    I was thirsting for affection, there was this hunger in my heart.
    It felt as though these needs of mine would be fulfilled, never.

    And then one day, either by chance or maybe it was destiny,
    you appeared on my horizon, and of my needs, you were well knowing.
    Like a lush oasis, flowing with emotion, you beckoned to me.
    With your gentle fruits of love, you were generous and overflowing.

    I envisioned you quenched the thirst of my parched soul, thoroughly,
    and my heart's hunger for your ardent love was satisfied in kind.
    Yet beneath it all, this dire thought. A mirage, all this could be.
    and, at my embrace, you'd turn to sand, and be gone with the wind.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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    PRISONER OF MYSELF

    To unbind me from my chains,
    I have found a key.
    Yet, I can't unlock myself,
    I'm fearful to be free.

    Locked up in my cage so long,
    I've forgotten how to fly.
    Although the door is open now,
    I'm afraid to try.

    The prison walls have fallen down,
    I can simply walk away.
    But, something inside of me,
    urges me to stay.

    I can't recall jury or judge,
    that gave this sentence to me.
    There has never been a trial,
    yet my life seems gloomy.

    The shackles on my heart and soul,
    had become a part of me.
    I did not know there was a better
    way for me to be.

    Accustomed to the walls and bars,
    thought they were mandatory.
    Imprisonment within myself,
    has been my sad life story.

    I find I'm my own prisoner,
    I'm wearing my own fetter.
    Only love can set me free,
    and can make all things better.

    The key, alone, is not enough.
    A guiding hand, I need,
    to lead me out of these restraints,
    to help me succeed.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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    SHIPS IN THE NIGHT

    Before I found you, my outlook was bleak.
    Every day was the same, week after week.
    The nights were no better, long, lonely and cold.
    Would this be the way that I would grow old?

    One day, I set sail on a sea not well charted.
    Not knowing what chain of events I had started.
    The chance that our ships wouldn't pass in the night,
    was never considered, the odds were too slight.

    Was it by chance or was it by fate?
    Was I running early? Were you running late?
    We won't know the reasons why our two paths crossed,
    or what brought together, two souls that were lost.

    From the beginning there was this attraction,
    as if there's a power directing our action.
    Each one of us had, what the other did lack.
    The die had been cast, there was no turning back.

    We drifted together in currents of love,
    in the light of the moon and the stars above.
    The tide took us out to where we would not dare.
    and slowly immersed us in loving so rare.

    From then we did sail on life's ocean together,
    in the sun and the rain, and in stormy weather.
    We knew we had something that would truly last,
    not slip through our fingers as oft in the past.

    We decided that all our fears and our sorrows
    would not interfere with all our tomorrows.
    This love we found, would endure for all time.
    We knew that, at last, we made our poem rhyme.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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    THE MAN I WAS

    I'm not the man I used to be.
    The man I was is history.
    You turned me into someone new
    with this love I have for you.

    I'm not the man I was before.
    Your love has shown me so much more.
    Unhappiness, you took away.
    You make my night, you make my day.

    The fire of my former days
    was rekindled and set ablaze.
    The passion that I kept within
    was released to live again.

    My heart and soul are resurrected.
    My every fiber, you've affected.
    Your love has set my spirit free.
    I'm not the man I used to be.

    William Tozzi
    February, 2000

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