Ache

I ached for you

Over so many lonely nights

Hardly daring to imagine

How it would feel

To hold you tight

To feel my soul

Lost deep inside the embrace of you

So if sometimes now my words

Cut like a knife

It is only this frustration

Of tenderness denied

An avenue

And even now

When I just hold the pain tenderly

To ache for the one you love

Hurts even the strongest of us

And yet these traces of hurt

When followed

Always lead me back to

The undeniable

Longing for you