I can tell you a thousand times
‘I love you’
And every time I can say it
in a different way
Every ‘I love you’ shows you
another layer,
A piece of my heart that you can taste

An ‘I love you’ that reaches deep,
one that is intense
An ‘I love you’ that warms you on the inside
One that is full-flavoured and one
that is just sweet
An ‘I love you’ that is playful
and stirs up your inner butterflies
An ‘I love you’ that is sensual
and makes you desire me
An ‘I love you’ that massages you,
that makes you feel relaxed and calm
One that reassures you
And one that has a light touch

Let all your senses take in my ‘I love you’s’
in all the rays, colours, flavours and shades
in which you are loved

©RoseGirl2019

There are words that always come
before and after all the other words
Before a poem starts
and after it has finished

They already occupy the page
long before the first letter is written
And they continue even after
the last point

They are the source
of all that I create
as a constant truth
they’re carved in my heart,
their echo sounds in yours
These words are: I love you

©RoseGirl2019

Are you still proud of me,
am I still your brave warrior
that makes you smile

I don’t have outside enemies no more
But now, I fight my battles inside
My thoughts, my fears, are my biggest demons
that sometimes make me crawl on the floor
and gasp for breath

But I don’t give up, I still do my best
to fight every battle with grace
as I fight for the freedom of my heart
It’s you, it’s the love that gives me strength
To know that every victory is for us

©RoseGirl2019

It’s out of my hands
I can’t grasp it
I can’t mold it
Nothing I can do no more
but to trust

It’s out of my mind
out of the logic
I can’t analyze it
as this love can only
be understood
by the heart

It’s out of my feet
I can’t chase it
I can’t run from it
but only stay where I am
– in love

It’s in our hearts
It’s in the stars
It’s in the soul
It’s in the poems

It’s safely guarded
from high above
by God and angels

©RoseGirl2019

I’m like a lost object
stored on a shelf in the Lost and Found
Everyone is already gone
The light’s been turned off
The things around me that are left
behind, cast shadows
Though I know you didn’t forget
and you search for me
You look for me everywhere
For your heart is just as lost as mine
So here in this strange place
Where everything seems unknown
I wait for you to be found
and to be brought home

©RoseGirl2019

We stand with our feet in the water
Our fears lie like stones in between us
It seems that they are the obstacles
that prevent the water from flowing
But in fact, they are the stepping stones
And each fear we face, every step we take
brings us closer to each other

©RoseGirl2019

You’re always on my mind
Time cannot erase you
No thought can push you away

©RoseGirl2019

In your gaze
I found poetry
I found a million stars
I found the sun
I found dreams
I found hopes
I found a friend
I found a lover
I found heaven
I found forever
I found myself

©RoseGirl2019

Let’s dance tonight under the new moon
close to each other in the dark
In a dance of stillness
we don’t need to see but we feel
The seeds, the hidden roots
of this love we carry inside
In all its greatness, all its light
Like the black moon, though invisible
has in her the potential to be full
Out of the dark she will create,
out of the void she will arise

©RoseGirl2019

I sink into my consciousness
and observe the tears,
observe the rain, the fears
I step out the spooky thoughts
Deeper into my soul
I connect with the core of me
for there, in my soul
you can be found

©RoseGirl2019

I don’t need to tell you how I feel
for you are in my heart
and feel every emotion there with me
every wave, every tide,
Like I am in your heart
and feel into your core

Thus together we sail
on our emotional waters
While holding each other
we keep the ship on course

©RoseGirl2019

We dance a musical staff together
and move from line to line
We go high and we go low,
explore the Major and the Minor
But it is always the Love Clef
that sets the tone

©RoseGirl2019

When you have gone through
so much pain in your life
Then unhappiness is almost
like a secure coat
around your shoulders
Stitched with the well-known
feeling of ache

The coat may look old and outworn,
it may feel heavy
and it may not fit no more
But you’re used to it
like a comfortable second skin
that you think
protects you from even more hurt

But if you take off the coat
you will see that
it is your natural state
to dance, to play and to laugh,
to be light and to be free,
from fear and pain
For you are born to love
and to be unapologetically happy

©RoseGirl2019

If there are words everywhere
to be written in a poem
But my hand feels too heavy
to hold my pen,
Will you hold it for me
Will you write my heart for me
with a soft embrace of your fingers
a loose dance from your wrist
let my words flow onto the paper
so they can hold you

©RoseGirl2019

If I scream your name
as loud as I can,
will you hear me
although there’s an ocean
in between

If I whisper your name
and the wind carries it away
to sing it into your ears,
will you hear me

Or is a silent thought of you
strong enough for you
to hear in your heart
To call you in
and feel you here with me

©RoseGirl2019

And she could tell her life
in many tears, in many stories
all her struggles and pain
could fill many chapters
and write many episodes

But despite everything,
regardless of the storylines,
in all of them
the true love that they share
in itself
is the happy end

©RoseGirl2019

The tears that I cry,
are they yours
or are they mine
The sadness that I feel
Is it your heart I’m tuned in to
or is it my own pain

The deeper and the higher
we connect and entwine
The more our feelings
flow into each other

But then there is no
‘mine’ or ‘yours’
for as a team
we always cry our tears
and heal for us both

©RoseGirl2019

If you feel completely lost
You’re stuck in your head,
A dark cloud hangs above you
Mountains everywhere
Your wings feel too heavy to fly
Inside of you it rains
You don’t know
how to move forward
If you don’t believe in the power
of the sun no more
for all you see is how it casts shadows,

I do believe in you
Let my faith be your hope

©RoseGirl2019

In this dark night under the stars
come sit with me by the fire
I hold your hand, do not fear
The ghosts you see are our own shadows
But even they dance with each other
And they are only visible
because the light shines brightly
and the flames burn fiercely
Do not focus on the shadows
for they are not even real
But look at the light of love
that shines in us and around us
and that even ghosts will leave untouched

©RoseGirl2019

We both are on a train
that, regardless of the weather,
even regardless of us,
keeps rolling

The vehicle of our soul
that pushes us forward
and that keeps us going
as it knows our destination
and how to reach home

In the train we may be tired
we may be sick, feel desperate
and not wanting to travel further
anymore,
Though the train keeps rolling
for not the ego, but the soul
is in control

And the more we resist
the more we will suffer
Whereas the more we surrender
the smoother we roll

©RoseGirl2019

The mind seems very smart
and always finds a ‘but’
to put after every sentence
that disempowers
what is previously said

‘I want to take the leap and go to her
BUT maybe now is not the right time’

‘He will come to me
BUT maybe the ocean is too big
to be crossed’

The mind seems to like
the ‘but’ and not easily willing
to let go of it
So I made an even bigger ‘but’
that wipes out all the other ‘but’s’

BUT between us there is true love!

©RoseGirl2019

Always have hope
Let it stoke up the fire
under your dreams
Wish on every star you see
Ask in your prayer
Light a candle
Drop a coin into a wishing well
Look out for rainbows
Expect miracles
Envision our bright future
together
Never give up on your heart
And always feel the flame
For love itself is hopeful

©RoseGirl2019

A new day, a new start
and I could choose
to be anything and be anywhere
But every day, the right place to be
is to be in love with you

©RoseGirl2019

Let’s do this one
straightforward
and right to the core
Let’s skip any prologue
No candle light,
no romantic discourse
No decent spelling
no proper rhymes
But raw nature
honest and pure
Let’s undress
ourselves quickly
from poetic allure
and grab these
naked words:
Oh man! I fucking love ya!

©RoseGirl2019

All our thoughts,
the world around us,
we put it on hold
and we take a deep breath
of love together
The now expands
if we take in the air
of eternal love

Let it flow through us
Let it move us
to where we need to go
Let it be easy, effortlessly
Our path unrolls itself
before our feet

Let’s stay together
in the space of this breath
the space of this love
in this infinite moment
for then we know exactly
what to do

©RoseGirl2019

There’s so much I could say
to you right now
But maybe, it’s better
to leave it unspoken
and to say it unsaid
To de-verbalize this poem
and to speak
with pure, formless love

©RoseGirl2019

My love, let’s wipe away the tears
and look up
Do you see the moon in your night sky
Here in my blue morning sky
I can still see her

Look a bit closer
and see how she reflects my smile to you
and how she shines on you my kisses
I see your gaze in her
She reflects to me your loving eyes

Seen from where the moon stands
Any distance perceived on earth
is negligible
And if we both look at her
and at the same time
feel inside our hearts, we know
distance between us does not exist

©RoseGirl2019

Longing is
the tug on the heart
that leads us
to where we belong

It is the signaling light
of our hearts
that seek each other

It is the magnetic pull
on the string
between us
that guides us home

©RoseGirl2019

Every day you sink deeper
into my heart
and you find depths
that I didn’t know they existed
In every corner you reside
Every day I feel you stronger
here with me
Your presence in every minute
that passes

Every day I miss you more
and I find deeper layers of longing
My heart that craves with every beat

And those are two sides
of the same coin

©RoseGirl2019

We both have a map
inside our hearts
that directs us home
I have one part
you hold the other
And when we put
those two pieces together
the pathways click
My river flows into yours
Your green grows seamlessly
further onto mine
And then it shows
home was closer
than we thought
we only need to make
those two pieces
fall into place
for my territory and yours
to become one

©RoseGirl2019

There is no part of you
which I do not love
For I love you from head to toe
from the left to the right
to the center of your heart

Every thought in your mind
Every emotion that flows
through you
Your light and your shadow
Your proud parts and the ones
you are ashamed of

The parts of you that you do
not love yourself, I love even more
for those are the parts
that need my love the most

©RoseGirl2019

On this grey Sunday morning
a lot of things are not perfect
Rain falls continuously from the sky
In my head a headache thunders
And I am here, while you are far away
on the other side of the world
But then I think of you
and feel you in my heart
where boundless love resides
and that is just so perfect that
even on a grey, rainy Sunday morning,
perfection can be found

©RoseGirl2019

I could give a thousand reasons
why I love you
I could paint your beauty
in countless words
But in fact, I don’t need
any reason to love you
as loving you is as natural
and simple as breathing

©RoseGirl2019

Our love is like the sand
of a vast, endless beach
My words are small sand molds
with which I playfully
try to put the sand into form
I craft with my hands
and make poems like sand castles

But all the forms
are just temporary
a strong wind, a big wave
and then they are gone
Whereas the sand
always remains

©RoseGirl2019

As a child I learned the art
to be invisible
Like a ghost I wandered around
so others could do me no harm
they could not blame me
and I would not bother anyone

But even though I hid
for the world and for myself,
you saw me
Like no one had ever seen me before
I came alive by your gaze
as your eyes made me visible

©RoseGirl2019

I want you to be free,
my beautiful bird
Not tied to anyone,
to any place or situation
But I want you to fly
and to discover yourself
and the skies
to float in higher realms
by the wings of your heart
For if you choose
to land in me and in love
I wish for you to choose it
from a place of freedom

©RoseGirl2019

May the full moon witness
while she looks down
from her throne
in the sky
and glows with the light
that the sun, her beloved,
shines on her,
that here on earth
my heart glows
even brighter and fuller
for it is lit up
by love and by you

©RoseGirl2019