Heart and Hands

I wish you could hold my heart in your hands
I wish you could feel it;
for only then would my love be clear to you.
Then holding, hefting my heart in your hands,
I'd wish you to bring your eyes nearer to it;
for only then could you see the flow of my blood for you.
I wish you could hold my heart to your ear, with your hands
and hear the pulse of it;
for only then could you understand my words for you.
I wish then that you could hold my heart to your skin, with your hands
so that you may know the true feel of it;
for only then could I tell you what I say as I hold you.
I wish my heart could be placed within your mind, with your hands
to convince you of my thoughts within it;
for only then could you know my thoughts of you.
I wish you could place my heart inside your soul,
and touch my soul within it;
for only then would you know how deeply I care for you.
And I wish you could hold my heart to your heart, with your hands
so they may become joined;
for only then could you know how much I truly love you.

ATS
3/24/94