When it’s late at night
And you’re all alone
Sitting, waiting
Beside the phone

What do you think?
What do you feel?
What do your thoughts
To you reveal?

Do you think of me?
Do you think of me?

Never doubt my love for you
Never doubt my feelings true
Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

Sitting by the fire
Watching the crackling flames
Kisses to be exchanged
Tired of all the games

Where do we go?
What do we do?
Can’t think of my life without you

This strange path we tread
To this moment’s led

Never doubt my love for you
Never doubt my feelings true
Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

I’ve never met a woman
That has meant so much to me
Never had this burning love
Never have I felt so free

No hiding behind facades
Babe, with you I am myself
To have you with me today
Takes my heart down off it’s shelf

So……

Never doubt my love for you
Never doubt my feelings true
Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

Never doubt my love for you
Never doubt my feelings true
Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

Never doubt
Never doubt
Never doubt my love for you

Underneath a lonely tree
Sits a man without a wife
Thoughts flow through his addled brain
As he contemplates his life

While in a room in a house
Husbandless a woman sits
She ponders her condition
As crazily her mind flits

She gets up, moves to the door
Decides she must take a stroll
Down the path into the woods
And beneath the rolling knolls

Lost amid his darkest thoughts
Like a ship that’s lost at sea
The man is tossed in turmoil
Over who and what he should be

The woman hears birds chirping
From each and every tree
As dark thoughts flow through her head
“Oh, what’s to become of me?”

The man moving from the tree
Onto the one lonely trail
Heading out so randomly
Hoping that he will not fail

Deeper into the dank woods
The woman darkly pushes
Her mind intently races
Moving through the bleak bushes

Quicker now races the man
Down along the beaten way
What will he tell his one love?
Oh whatever will he say?

A clearing opened ahead
Does now the sad woman see
The thrilled man into it bursts
As the woman turns to flee

“Wait,” says the man hopefully
As his love before him stands
“Please come back here to me
And do let me take your hands.”

Low upon his infirm knees
The man down before her goes
The woman downward looks on him
As they both do strike a pose

“No matter what has happened,”
In such earnest states the man
“I do love you even more
Than before this all began”

A deep loving look does pass
Across the woman’s slack face
A smile forms upon her lips
As her thoughts the man embrace

“I know that you love me, dear”
The woman says now aloud
“But what is it that you want?
What is it that you’ve avowed?”

“You know my great love for you,”
Does slow now the man begin,
“Is so deep and wholly true.
I just want to let you in.”

“So just listen if you will,”
As he gets down on one knee
“If you truly so desire,
Would you like to marry me?”

Smiling now the woman sighs,
“I thought you would never ask.
If that be your true desire,
Let’s begin this wholesome task!”

Hand in hand now do they walk
The man and his future wife
Finding a path many seek
Searching all throughout their life

What future awaits these two
No one can sincerely say
Only patient love will serve
To illuminate the way

Feelings
Drifting
Soothing
Twisting
Over
Under
Writhing
Missing

Love
Anger
Hate
Joy
Humor
Sarcasm
Stinging
Ploys

Thoughts
Ideas
Plans
Hopes
Paths
Journeys
Desire
Neverending

A laugh
A smile
That’s all I need
A kiss
A hug
Nothing’s guaranteed

A look
A touch
Aquiver am I
A thought
A word
Spoken by and by

To me
What are you?
What can I say?
Lover
Friend
Confidante
Shoulder to cry
Arms to embrace

Nebulous whispers
Deep in the night
Hold my attention
Filled with delight
Utter amazement
Gazing on you
As I take your hand
Unto you my heart is given

Sometimes late at night
Thoughts run through my head
Wond’ring where you are
A feeling that I dread

Feelings that I have
Deep inside for you
Make my dear mind swirl
Tell me what is true

Want to hold you close
Feel you next to me
Comforting embrace
Hope that you can see

One day have you near
All that I do need
With everlasting love
My heart does concede

If you do consent
This dream evermore
Promise to you now
Your heart to adore

Love so deep and true
From my heart does leap
Hardly to contain
Feelings my soul reaps

To this very end
I will offer you
Show you ev’ry day
Love begins anew

Incomparable you are
Your beauty
Your strength
In you these qualities I love
These qualities I desire

Fragile you are
Like a flower whose petals
Under the slightest pressure bend
Like the thinnest ice
At any moment can break

But in you do these
Each other complement
Strength hiding weaknesses
Wisdom hiding impulse
Cheer hiding depression

For these reasons
Do I champion you
To be your defender
Your support
Your protection
Your love

Why do I worry?
Why do I care so?
Give me an answer
So that I may know

The things I can see
Items that I infer
Heightens the concerns
My mind can’t defer

Wanting to help you
I step to the plate
I offer myself
Demons to negate

Acceptance of you
Foremost in my mind
With utmost caring
Works love that is blind

If ever you share
Your fears now concealed
Then at that due time
I’ll become your shield

In rural Bartholomew County
A woman oh there does live
That I would love to see
And anything to her give

Beautiful to me is she
Her eyes so glowing blue
Like waterfalls flow her hair
Her smile and feelings true

I long to feel her touch
And to hug her body sweet
To kiss her wanting lips
Would be so wondrous neat

To beside her always wake
And hold her close to me
I would anything do
To fully one day see

Would you let me take your worries?
To shoulder your stress as my own
To make the thoughts inside you cease
And alleviate the unrest that’s sown

Do you need someone to always be there?
Someone to hold you always close
To keep and protect forever
From waves of worries raging throes?

My shoulders I offer to you
To shed tears upon if you must
My heart and mind your burdens share
If you only give me that trust