Early Works - Feelings

In my mind and heart, I find joy knowing you by small words, but never knowing the way you feel. Deep within my thoughts I ponder on the question do your feelings correspond with ones my heart and my mind produce, yet you know little of my feelings really for life and fate has held me out of reach of your life for so long. Maybe between the small words and quiet smiles I can find a sign of how your feelings flow. Yet on the other hand, if I’ve read things wrong a one-sided love affair might grow. So unconsciously in the corridors where love lies in wait, I stride cautiously gaining admiration for you at a surprising rate. I must not fall too quickly for if I do the floor might give way and I shall be hurt in the fall. So I tread with caution overturning each stone as I go. Upon reaching, the end there won’t be much I don’t know, or will there. I might know all about you in every detail, it might be illustrated, but your feelings are something only you can tell me. So with heart and mind I plunge forward hoping, wishing, and praying the right answer I will find. 18 August 1968