Give Love

By Heidi Larsen

Give love with me
Make it slow and strong.
Hold my face in your hands
Passionately long.
Carry me, touch me
Embrace me in your heat.
Cuddle me, spoil me,
Sweep me off my feet.
Cushion my back.
I deserve more than floor.
Think of me first
And hold my door.
When you think of love,
Think of me.
Brag your love to all 
You see.
Secretly drive behind
Me at night,
To check up on me,
To see I’m alright.
Trust me in everything
That I do.
Let me give my love
Always to you.
Give love with me
And never run away,
From the commitments and promises
That we say here today.
Give love with me 
Listen to my anxious fears.
Melt my heart of stone with
Your magical soothing tears.
Give love with me
I’m here to give and take.
I’m ready for the completeness
That you and me would make.
Give love with me
And work hard in what we do,
To make our love immortal, 
Forever, tried and true.

Heidi Larsen, M.Ed. is a 4th-grade teacher at a small Christian school in Central Massachusetts. She is a poet and a natural born storyteller. Her poems have been featured in the books Our Wild Winds, Wandering Roots, as well as in Rock Walls and Open Pastures, each a Quabbin Quills Anthology, and showcased in Creative Connections Art Gallery and in The New Dawn Arts Center. She is the author of My Bible- A Daily Prayer Journal. Her words come because they must. They have eeked out, late at night, when no one else was looking. They are her search for meaning, her grief in loss, her faith in a God who will never leave, and the intimate breath that she shares with this world of fragmented people.