What is Fate

I wake before the dawn and share the night with the stars    
Though I don’t claim to know the night so well      
Save where it leads my mind to wander...      
Yet, too soon from dreams      
To wakefulness      
My thoughts flow and coalesce on the timeless currents      
Of the ancient deep      
      
Before the coming of the sun      
There is a stillness that causes all in silence to move      
And I stare in wonder      
Half in hope and half in prayer      
At the feeling touching my soul this hour      
And gives me pause to say      
     
Who am I?      
     
Surely life’s fateful lessons  
Triumphs and trials      
Have shaped me to some certain purpose      
I know the beauty of whispers that sound as echoes in the gray before dawn      
For they tell of you     
The dream of my heart      
And I have been adrift and lost in this sea of souls too long      
     
What is it to fall asleep with someone on your mind      
And to wake to their memory again in the morning      
As if the moment never passed    
     
One day a man awakens to find a woman has become the realization of a dream he didn't know he had     
     
How often have I been torn    
Is their one with whom I could share my truths      
The secrets of my soul      
For all the truths about me are not beautiful      
And I fear to drive away      
The beauty that is you      
     
And so in my fears      
Better a thousand dreams that can never be      
Than the waking moment which tells me no      
For what would I say    
I have lost the day but night falls      
And the stars appear      
And all goes on as before      
Save me      
I remain in a past that had you      
A past that was a dream      
     
I wish I had the words      
Yet words are betrayers      
What could they tell anyhow    
Some things can’t be framed by words      
     
What is your name soft spoken by me but the shouted whisper of desire      
     
If I could speak to your heart      
What would I say    
Words    
Words imagine they could tell all things      
But could words tell a kiss half so well      
As our lips      
Yours      
And mine      
In the meeting      
     
And there’s the rub      
How shall we meet - if we meet at all      
Save in truth      
     
Can you forgive what you’ve never known    
And can I forget what I’ve known too long    
     
I don’t know how to take the chance      
Yet fate keeps bringing me back to you      
     
What is fate    
Beneath the vast circumference of the heavens      
Was it chance we met or fate    
And chance or fate that brings us back    
We move in circles      
You and I      
Intersecting in a dance of lives      
Written in the stars      
     
Can you draw the poison from my wounds    
For I would have the word love written upon my heart      
With each touch of your lips to mine      
Their every straying to cheek or neck the sweetest cursive      
     
This is the word I would know      
And it’s only telling      
     
For I leave work and the sun's gone down      
And stars appear      
Those preludes to my dreams      
Where you live and move til dawn      
     
What deepening dream is this sweet gift of the night      
To forget the stars      
For the heaven found within your eyes      
Each kiss a tongue of passions flame      
Which like all fires      
Seeks heedless to consume      
And I would devour you with desire      
Which knows only the desperate longing to be quenched      
With each kiss –      
Scattered and breathless on your face and lips      
As if I could never get enough      
     
Help me to find the words to find my way to you      
     
For dreams are the unspoken hopes the heart sings      
While searching among memories      
To create the perfect day      
And what day would be perfect without you    
What dreams does stir me and you’re not there