Presence

Every word you say fills me with a glowing heat.
Some might think me crazed or a cheat.
Do they have rights over where I go?
No, they are spectators, guests in what is my show.
While you are my the ying to my yang.
If others overstep they’ll get a flash of fang.
Over-reaction, quick to violence.
To those actors I say, return to silence.
My choice, my time.
You are alongside by design.
If you weren’t I’d revert to type.
Doing that now wouldn’t feel right.
Be like trying to swim while missing a limb.
You are an extension with which i’m living.

Your every action brings an unending feeling.
Light of my day, precents my mind from peeling.
Dispel this obsession to look back in fear.
Words said to me, I didn’t think I would ever agree.
But times change when you least believe.
Relighting a fire that terminates the need to grieve.
Sparking inner fire and stoking flames.
Compels me to retake my forsaken reins.
All because you are present in some way.
Promising you will never fade from me.
Listening when I need a voice to soothe.
Never asking for me to prove…
That I always have to be more.
Cause reality is no one is keeping score!