[My heart moves forward into the light]

INTRO: This poem is about desire that feels too big to say out loud—about patience, fear, and the way time stretches when you love someone from both near and far. It leans into images of light, rain, and the small ways longing holds up the heart and pulls it forward.


My heart moves forward into the light
greets you in the rising and falling
of hours that trail behind us
and stretch before us.

I try not to talk about the all things
I want - they are my prayers
I say in the closet
away from everyone, even you.

It's that I am afraid of what I want,
I've just come to understand
the weight of things
and the need to be patient

like the spring rain that fills
the face of the daffodil
till it bends down slowly
to earth
to return the kisses.

And now -
all my days without you
make love to all my days with you

and from their lovemaking
days without end are born
in your belly and take root

in my poet's heart that
moves forward,
                             forward into the light.               

© 2025 Chris Leibow — Salt Lake City artist and poet.
poetry, collage art, mixed media,
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