Shadows dance on the walls as I lay next to you, <br />I'm hypnotized by your breathing as you sleep. <br />I feel an overwhelming sense of peace within me, <br />which has caused a single tear to roll onto my cheek. <br /> <br />This tear has fallen, fallen for all the yesterday's, <br />for all the pain I've caused and for all the sorrow. <br />A single tear has fallen to wash away all my wrongs, <br />to make way for love in our life together tomorrow. <br /> <br />To be afraid of our love is to fear life itself, <br />for without love what true meaning does life have? <br />Life is about the sharing of ones self with another, <br />and reaching for all of the gusto we each can grab. <br /> <br />We each bare our own set of love's battle scars, <br />we've allowed our pain to block us from what's real. <br />Wounds will heal when we begin to trust in love, <br />and can acknowledge what we both continue to feel. <br /> <br />I dream of the day we both finally can surrender, <br />and be freed from the painful bondage of our past. <br />A day when the storms within us are quiet and still, <br />allowing us to embrace our love, meant to last.<br /><br />Shelly Price<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-single-tear/