Love Poem: Our Glass
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Written by: William Clause

Our Glass

We are like an hourglass 
 sharing one-grain, one emotion, 
one taste of ourselves at a time

As you fill me up with new, 
Exciting, enticing experience 
you release yourself to me

You free yourself to take in 
more of the world,
more of life, more of love 
less of what entangles you

I hunger for all that you have for me
give to me, bring to me
the way you enlighten me 
with the wisdom that is your way

All that you absorb from the world
I hope, I know, I trust 
will be a part of my adventure 
my experience, my happiness

So now with gentle emotion 
we roll us over in shifting sands
to other moments we grow together.

As I release all the stress of the hour, 
all the love I have harbored for you
all the emotion that flavors us

I pour out 
just before my cup runs over
Just before the pleasure becomes too much
just when I have the most to give

It clears my head like a spring rain 
it cools the fevered pace of my life
It culls the weed from the seed 
before the planting

And with all this we grow again
because we keep our baskets full 
there is so much more to harvest 
there always has been 
there always will be
I in you, and you in me

Because we are like an hour glass 
sharing sand together... 
counting heart beats
capturing each moment
for eternity.