Poetry

Hold Me In Your Sway

by Maria Franco
05/12/19
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Where shall I keep
All this love that I hold in my eyes
To be showcased only for your eyes?
Should I keep it within closed lids
To be opened only in front of your eyes?
Hold my love in the sway of your eyes.

Where shall I keep
All this love that is fully packed 
Within every tiny space of my heart?
Should I keep it within the folds
Of heartbeats and emotions
To be poured out in front of your heart?
Hold my heart within the sway of your heart.

Where shall I keep
The thousand prayers that I recite
Each prayer said in sincerity and meaning?
Should I keep it at your altar
Lay it all down in your presence
To be lifted by you into a true heaven?
Hold my prayer in the sway of your prayers.

Where shall I keep
The numerous and running thoughts 
That keep flitting around my mind?
Should I keep it in the safe places
Of your own wisdom and knowing
To be controlled by your intellectual power?
Hold my thoughts in the sway of your mind.

Where shall I keep
Every  bit and piece of my soul?
For even though it is within my spirit
It belongs to you only.
Should I let your spirit govern it
By your final word to give me more life?
Hold my soul in the sway of your soul.

Where shall I keep
All the breath that is attached to your name
To inhale your purest and deepest love
And exhale my spiralling love?
Should I let it climb all the way 
To a paradise in the clouds?
Hold my breath in the sway of your breath.

Where shall I keep
All the joy and tears of each day
That alternate each other in routes?
Should I keep it in the vault of time
Or store it in a memory drive 
To be taken out and cherished years later?
Hold my emotions in the sway of your day.

Where shall I keep
The songs that I sing
From the voice of the heart on the lips?
Should I let it be recorded in the studio 
Of not the earth but the one in heaven
Where every singer is applauded and passed?
Hold my voice in the sway of your voice.

Where shall I keep 
The Words that want to come right out
And be told  and expressed? 
No more to be kept within our being
But to ensure it reaches the majestic One
Who can hold all the words that we say
And still have place for more.
Hold my words  forever in the sway of your words.

 Maria Franco