Category: Personal Poetry

HOW DO I KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME?
by Michael Langston

I read it…
in the letters
that you write me,

I hear it…
from your lips
when you tell me,

I can see it…
in your eyes
when you behold me,

And I feel it…
in your touch
as you hold me.

SPRING DANCE
by Michael Langston

Though in the crowd, I am alone
With no one there to call my own;
I walk amidst the people there,
But there is no one there to care.

Their eyes look blindly straight through me,
Like a ghostly shape they cannot see,
As though no one were really there,
As though I were the empty air.

I stand and think of times gone by
Before we said our last good-bye
When love was mine and you were there,
Your smile, your eyes, your long blonde hair.

I turn and walk into the night
And leave this place of sound and light,
But no one knows that I have gone,
And no one cares…
I am alone.

NIGHTS WITH YOU
by Michael Langston

Your warm brown eyes,
Both dark and bright,
Turn cold, dark night
To warmth and light.

Your gentle touch,
Though soft and light,
Can change the world…
Can give new life.

MY FONDEST DESIRE
by Michael Langston

I’d like to drive with you tonight
To some faraway place
And sit and talk and hold you
And listen to music the whole night through…
Till the day-birds begin their singing,
And till the long and dark and lonely night
Fades in the light of our love’s new dawn.

A LONGING
by Michael Langston

How I long…
For something to give my life an importance,
To escape the boredom of everyday existence
And find at last our life’s true meaning:
To bring to light an unknown truth
Lain in darkness all ages past,
To sail a vast, uncharted sea
And reach the shores…
Of an undiscovered world.

EPITAPH
by Michael Langston

Where the sun goes at nighttime,
And the snow stays in summer,

Gone there for all time,
There she stays…forever.

SAID OF LOVE
by Michael Langston

Standing alone…
under the dome of night,
gazing aloft…
into the immensity of space,
looking far away…
into the stars above
says of loneliness,
says of distance
what once your face
and eyes so near
said of closeness,
said…of love.

SINCE YOU ARE GONE
by Michael Langston

My love for you is a thing that lives on
As surely as do I,
Holds to life, wants to live,
And doesn’t want to die.

Inside me there its life I spare;
It binds itself to me
With so close a tie that this love and I:
One and the same are we.

You are gone, and my love living on
Yet binds itself to me,
And with so close a tie that both it
And I…
Die together you see.

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOOK IN HIS EYES
by Michael Langston

Sometimes when you look in his eyes
And say, I love you,
Sometimes then remember too
That other person you once said it to,
Who…

Far away and forgotten,
Somewhere now sits and cries
And has no other eyes
But the stars to look into…
Holding close in his mind,
There forever, and for all of time:
The memory of you.