Written for the One I Love
When darkness fades
And glory shines you open your eyes and hope to find
A starling on your pillow
A valentine in your arms who nestles cheek to breast
You alight from bed to floor
Going to prepare a succulent feast as you tiptoe out the door
Content, refreshed and showered
From the house you leave with love you cleave to crack the open sky
Find a spot, a secluded one
Walk hand in hand alond silk golden sands and learn to dream
Cleanse your soles together
On salty shores reveal your souls to heavens soouthing balm
Talk becomes priceless time
When sipped between friends as a sweet chilled wine
Trust and open “Pandora’s Box”
This woven basket of picnic pieces satisfies the prevalent appetite
Singing waters beckon bathers
to soak embracing all of natures reviving good cheer
Stroke the passioned stallion’s mane
You fire his heart a firebox of embers, nostrils race with steam
Should one be one alone
No let them come intertwined as love’s evergrowing vine
All money spent is lost
when trying to win your love my motives must be clear
The precious memories held
Will note be bought to corrode in life and bring us fear
Today we built a friendship
Intimate in detail, purest of materials, loved in conception and still real!
Author: Andrew Pitchford
Written for Cheryl for Valentines Day 1991. We won a bottle of wine when this was submitted to the local paper, the Te Awamutu Courier when they ran a Valentine Day’s competition.
