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 to 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

My knight, if you come ride
out of the dark forest
where you have been lost for so long
If you are exhausted
from the battles you fought
mainly against yourself
You followed the light
and now you just want to be held,
The door of my heart is open to you
for my home is yours
So put your armour down
and lie naked in my arms
Rest against my chest
and feel the comforting warmth
of everlasting love

©RoseGirl2019

I could gaze
into your eyes forever
and let mine lock
with their galactic beauty
To stare into your sky
full of glittering stars
and float weightless
and timeless
in your universe

©RoseGirl2019

I was taught
not to trust the water
for waves can roll over you
rivers can whirl and overflow

I was taught
not to trust the wind
for a light summer breeze
can easily turn into a tornado
that takes everything
and hits you mercilessly
in your face

I was taught
to not trust myself
for there are others
who have more authority

I was taught
to not trust love
for love is like the wind
and the water
A dangerous force
that should be controlled
Love can be taken from you
anytime
You need to earn it
before you can receive
and maybe you’ll even
never be worthy enough

But then I met you
and I learned that
love can be wild like the wind
It can take you high up
into the sky
It can be the powerful force
behind your wings
It can be continuously flowing
like the water
unconditionally given
and there is always enough

And then I started to trust love
like I’d never trusted anything before
And the more I trusted love
the more I trusted the water,
the wind and myself

©RoseGirl2019

I was a seeker and looked for something
that could guide me
Something, that would give an answer
to all my existential questions,
why I was here
and that could explain
the mystery of life

I read many self-help books,
articles on spirituality
I listened to inspirational talks
I did meditation courses
and practiced yoga
But nothing that could
quench my thirst
and could satisfy my hunger
Until I met you and found
what I had been looking for
The holy grail,
the philosopher’s stone
is in my and your heart
For my guide, my guru is
true love

©RoseGirl2019

And we stand heart to heart
A blossoming flower
we both carry in our chest
that is open to the other
A beam of light radiates from it
and shines back and forth
A continuous stream
of love that balances
and flows in a perfect,
never ending circle
of give and receive

©RoseGirl2019

That night that we met
in a small village
in the Dutch countryside
I looked at replicas of Van Gogh
that hung on the wall
You thought I was so interested
But did you really think
Van Gogh could impress me
after I’d seen
the stunning expressionism
of your artist’s eyes?

©RoseGirl2019

Let me unname you
from all the false names
and labels
society and people around you
have given to you
But that don’t cover who
you truly are

Let me unname you
from all the name calling you do
in your own head,
all the negative self-talk

And then,
my beloved, my darling,
my one and only,
my fairy man, my king
my perfect counterpart,
let me rename you
in the name of love

©RoseGirl2019

There is no spot,
no letter, no word
in this poem
in which I do not love you
Even the blank spaces
in between are filled
with love
So that this poem
is a microcosm
of the macrocosm
I have within

©RoseGirl2019

Don’t think in separation,
in a ‘you’ and a ‘me’
Don’t think in distance,
in a ‘there’ and a ‘here’
But think in union
For there’s always a ‘we’

©RoseGirl2019

August carries the pain of memories
Two years in a row
a cold winter that came
and made abruptly an end of Summer
Sharp icicles that cleaved my heart
and froze my body
Snow that rained from my eyes
I never knew August could be that cold

I tried to forget
but August still reminds me
Memories that are frozen inside
and stir up fear

My love, help me
to make the pain melt
so it can flow out of me
Let’s together stoke up the fire
of our love
Let’s burn away the past
and heat up the now

©RoseGirl2019

I’m your night sky
in which your stars can glow
Your day sky
in which your birds can fly

I’m your universe
in which your soul can search
Your ocean
on which you can float

I’m your blank page
on which you can birth your words
Your soil
in which your tree can grow roots

I’m the air
you can breathe freely
I’m the land
on which you can run, walk,
dance or stand still

I’m your field
in which your flowers can bloom
Your church
in which you can pray
and find answers

I’m your eternity
for I hold
an infinite space
of love for you

©RoseGirl2019

And sometimes,
words
are too distracting
and poems
make too much noise
when I just want to
connect with you
and silently feel
love

©RoseGirl2019

I walk with you through your
photo album
as we travel back in time
So many you’s at different stages
of your life
The height and the expression
may differ,
Though your beautiful eyes
that connect me to your soul
and tell me your hidden story,
never change

And when I see all those you’s
I feel their struggles, their joy,
their loneliness, their search
and their pain

I give every you a kiss
From the small one
to the one that you are today
Every you, at every age
I hold dear in my heart
And may every you know,
I’ve been with them all along

©RoseGirl2019

We are like the north star
The brightest star in the sky
It is perceived as one star
But in fact, there are two that,
in their binary system of love
keep each other on track and
dance and shine together as one

©RoseGirl2019

Every sunrise speaks
of our love
No matter how many dark nights
we may face
Or the battles we may fight
No matter the ruins around us
How many times we may fall
to the ground
How deep the abyss may seem
Our love is unconquerable
And time and time again
it will make us rise

©RoseGirl2019

I tried to express the love
I feel for you
and drew it on a paper
I made delicate lines
I wrote beautiful words
I used every colour
Until I realized that
the love was not
the drawing itself,
But in fact, the love was
the pure, infinite white
of the paper
that lay underneath
and shined through

©RoseGirl2019

I lie down on the bed
Through the bedroom window
A strong evening breeze blows
over me
I close my eyes, I think of you
and then I float
on an endless ocean of love
And by the tides of my breath
The magnet of my moon
I draw you deeper into me
Into the depths of my ocean
Until you flow
in my north and my south,
my west and my east
And together we expand
like the water
Together we dance on my breath
We merge in my longing
And we find an anchor
in the beat of my heart

©RoseGirl2019