Derek Pape Poems

It was the space that was filled with one not knowing the other.
When we met and talked for the first time.
The space disintegrated in a few short hours of time spent with each other.
I have never loved as I love you.
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I see myself in your eyes.
I see your love for me and feel your passion and warmth.
In your eyes I have found a peace and love I have never known before.
You have shown me the path and the way of love.
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The things I see in you.
Has brought me thus far.
You have helped me face my shadows, and brought me to a place of peace.
Your strength and energy inspire me, to make me reach farther then I would have dared.
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Of words said and unsaid, and actions taken or not.
I know for me the path to take is the one less traveled.
That is where I will find what I know I need.
The paradox between what I know I need, and what I want.
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We walk through life together.
Hand in hand.
Two independent souls connected to each other.
We are sharing the wondrous journey of life and love.
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Wrapped in your religion.

Protected by your faith.
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Are we of lesser men void of the right thing to do?

Of questionable deeds committed in the gray area far from the black and the white.
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Balancing on the edge about to fall into the abyss.

There is the fine thread of love.
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Created from that which is.
But it cannot be found by ones self.
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You cannot seek absolution from the dead.
Perhaps you knew she would not forgive you.
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