Sonnet Iii
I find your face within a crowded room
and wait to catch your look, knowing fully
love will leap all space drawing me to thee,
to your heart. Like a babe within the womb
I am sheltered, safe from threats that loom
upon my daily horizon. Swiftly
your love does reach unseen, enfolding me,
rebuking all the loneliness and gloom.
Thus we stand while between the babble grows,
and all around us flies the noisy din.
You are so near to me, yet no one knows.
The words that your heart speaks I hear within;
in silence, deep, your love about me flows.
I go; you, only, know where I have been.
© 1987, Faye Lanham Gibson
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