The Man in My Life

The Man in My Life

by Latorial Faison

There used to be a time when I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat

And thinking about you just made me weak

I couldn't close my eyes nor open my mouth

Thought I'd lose you in the process, somehow

It's funny how a fool in love is

Wanting nothing in life but to be his

I've matured way past life's maturity

And found out that you mean so much to me

Now today I stand, a whole new woman

Married to the man I spent my life following

No regrets, still in love until the day I die

Because you're a real man, and I can't lie.

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from Immaculate Perceptions by Latorial Faison

Copyrighted 2002.

Let Us Love

Let Us Love

by Latorial Faison

We came into this world

dreaming of love.

We grew up fantasizing

emphasizing, categorizing love.

Love is that which has awakened us,

that which has overtaken us.

It is what we have prayed

to God for.

Love is a glorious gift

of the spirit.

Love is a sweet, assuring voice

even when we cannot hear it.

Love is faith, and faith is love,

often unseen, always rising above.

Love brings us

to a unified place.

Love waltzes into chaos,

becomes a saving grace.

Never letting go of the promise,

let us hold fast to love.

Greeting uncertainties of tomorrow

let us hold fast to love.

Let us know who holds it,

believe who controls it.

Let love shape us

day by day.

Let love teach us

the importance of our stay.

This love, ordained for two,

this love betrothing me to you.

Let us love to and from

a sacred place.

Let us be disciples of love

when love cannot be traced.

If doors appear shut

as we walk through life, let us love.

If stars fail to shine

as we stumble through night, let us love.

Let us love forward

when society steps backward.

Let us love more

when laughter occurs less.

Let us love faithfully and deeply.

Let our love be truth boldly confessed.

Let us love in every triumph and trial,

summon love for each test.

If love be our guide,

ours shall be a love blessed.

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from Love Poems by Latorial Faison

A Love

A Love

by Latorial Faison

This is a love poem

and I'm writing it

like Whitney would sing it

in mezzo-soprano

with highs and lows

filling heart and soul.

Men and women

ladies and gentlemen

“Let’s stay together.”

In love, let’s be a lyric

paint the sky red

and fly rockets to bed.

Let’s melt into a melody

hang from cliffs in climax

screaming scats in pure ecstasy.

I told you

this

is a love poem

you’ve been warned.

Let’s be a long, strong ballad

get lost in baby-making sighs

soft echoes and love cries.

Let’s be united

synchronized

let’s be baptized

emerge as two hearts

two souls

one love.

Let’s sit on the rock

and feel God

receive His blessing

flow in His anointing

read His handwriting

on our walls.

Let’s pray

for a more perfect

union

that we might rule

together

enjoy dominion

forever.

I can be

God's Eve

corrected

you can be

His Adam

redirected

together

we can be

love

perfected.

In love

about love

all for love

to love

beyond love

above love

me for you

and you for me

that’s the kind of love

our love

should be

A His kind of love

an our kind of love

Etta’s “Saturday kind of love”

when “your love is my love”

and our love is

this love

It’s a love

it's a love

always will be

a love.

Copyrighted 2014 Latorial Faison
from Love Poems by Latorial Faison

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After You've Been

After You've Been

by Latorial Faison

You gently bathe my heart in love

When I hear you utter those sweet words

Can my seemingly satisfied soul live again

After you've been?

You intoxicate my streams of passion

As I feel an agonizing heat from your passing

Freud's philosophy cannot explain

This sultry, but sensual joy you bring.

You are the essence of my life's beauty

As you yearn to fulfill a delicate duty

Of being my very on clandestine keepsake

Resounding echoes of the love we make.

You in the absence of titillating touch

Come to me faintly revealing much

Of the ties that bind us through and through

Giving testimony to a love exceedingly true.

You sacredly adorn these weary walls with joy

Radiating silent smiles, my anguish to destroy

One precarious look, one gratifying glance

Sets my fiery spirit in motion qualifying the romance.

You give new meaning to love's immortal law

Loving me incessantly, forgiving without flaw

Can my seemingly satisfied soul live again

After you've been?

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from Secrets of My Soul by Latorial Faison
Copyrighted 2001