I Need To Know

I need to know I am loved
Far beyond coffee in the morning and a favorite meal.

I need eyes looking at me as if there is no other left on earth
Words to tell me why I have been chosen from all the rest.

I need caresses, love notes, an arm locked in mine,
Fingers on my face, hands brushing back my hair.

I am strong only in my capacity to endure pain,
In my determination not to be overwhelmed by shadows that appear without permission and endure without reason.

I am strong in confronting the fears that match each decade of my life,
In looking back with guilt and regrets,
In my persistent reassurance that all my dreams will be realized.

I am strong when it is essential to someone that I live,
Unthinkable that I die, unbearable that I disappear,

A love that goes all out without reservation or calculation,
A love of total trust and total loyalty,

A love that can last until I breathe my last breath and gaze my last gaze ... at you,

When I am finally glad that I have lived
Because I know how much I have been loved.

~*~James Kavanaugh

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