Breathe With You by Devi Nina Bingham

Let me breathe with you

let me look into your eyes

let me hold you through

the good days, and even your demise.

We will explore the mountaintops

and when you're sick, I will be your nurse

hold my hand when you are lost

and together we'll conquer this universe.

My home is wherever you are

whether you are near or far.

I will be your might

and you will be my song

when the day turns to night

and you need me to be strong

I will breathe with you

and look into your eyes

if you let me hold you through

the good days, and even your demise.

Until the sun goes down

babe, I will be around

to breathe with you. 

The Engineer and the Poet by Devi Nina Bingham

Two lovers misunderstand each other;

the engineer and the poet.

One speaks a mechanical language of structure,

the other sings a rhyming sonnet.

And while their perceptions are a world apart,

they can learn to see through the other's eyes,

and share a single burning heart,

and drink the wine of love, life's only prize.

Give me your eyes with which to see the world;

I want to learn everything of you.

For into this strange affair we have been hurled

and I want to know you through and through.

Isn't the thinker and the artist,

when blended together, the smartest? 

I Can't Breathe by Devi Nina Bingham

I am surrounded by you

the four cardinal directions

the fire, the water, the sky so blue

even the earth plays with my affections.

The air that sustains me

is the tender breath you exhale.

I can only make an empassioned plea:

my heart is whole wherever yours dwells. 

All I know is that without you, I can't breathe

and for you, the stars are singing as I stand beneath.

Devastated by Devi Nina Bingham

Devastating you

devastated me

a devastating brew

I drank as a bewitching tea.

Devastating and

unforgettable

is all my eyes can see.

Are you a fiction or a fable?

Can I believe the words you say?

Will you fly to me someday?

And in my arms will you stay?

You've stolen my heart away.

I am saving you the ocean view,

because I am completely devastated by you. 

Night Jasmine by Devi Nina Bingham

Could you be any more right for me,

like God thought it through and said,

"I will make her a mystery, so my need to know is fed.

I want to explore you through and through

I cannot resist a fire that burns

reaching out curiosity's hand

to one as intriguing as you.

Because your puzzle has made me yearn

though this sweet detour was not planned.

I have spent so many days wishing I knew

then I saw that in a world of rules

a little mystery makes passion new

so my love for you never cools.

Clever, aren't you, to keep the truth from me

unfolding as darkness turns.

Never before have I seen

a flower given so freely.

And so I am the one who learns

from the night jasmine I hold in my hand.

House of the Rising Sun (Sestina Poem) by Devi Nina Bingham

My restless heart passed the time

waiting for the rising sun.

On it trudged, from night to day,

elusive was this mystery called love.

Holding my breath while others called it life,

wanting to feel a warmth within.

Denied was my longing for comfort within

like a rose crushed beneath cruel time.

I offered what was too fragile for life

and was burned by the cross and impatient sun. 

Still I persisted, pressing closer to love,

living to breathe the precious light of day.

Love ran away as I reached for the day,

and night became a frigid blanket within.

I forgot the graceful face of love

buried by the heavy hand of time.

Won't you break open my sorrow with the sun

and wash me in the glad tide of life?

Until your improbable face brought new life,

until you turned despair to day,

until the sky opened and revealed a kinder sun,

until you made a home within,

I only mistrusted time,

I only scoffed at love.

Now the miracle of love

has carried me to the fount of life

that springs eternal, beyond time

where the dark of night bows to the day.

I will meet you where joy dances within

in the house of the rising sun.

Meet me, won't you, beneath that sun

for when youth and beauty have forsaken love

I will not forsake promises spoken within

given when youth still decorated life.

Should darkest night eclipse the brightest day

I will not forget how you saved me from unforgiving time.

O, that I could give you all my time. 

I will never leave you, one day.

And we will rest forever in the tender arms of life. 

Above The Hurricane by Devi Nina Bingham

Don't go away; don't say goodbye.

Stay and let me look at you.

Don't run away when I gaze into your eyes.

Let me behold the morning's dew.

The road will still be there; you can go anytime,

only leave me with part of the pain.

Take my hand, and we will climb

above the hurricane.

In you I met fate's tender gaze

hidden in your enigmatic smile.

Not a spark of recognition, but a captivating blaze.

You made the wait worthwhile.

Take shelter in me, and I'll do the same.

Then all our searching won't be in vain

because together we rose above the hurricane. 

Open To Me by Devi Nina Bingham

What you don't want me to see,

what others did not adore,

open to me.

Though it isn't easy, and trust isn't free

like a frozen lock on a broken-down door,

open to me.

Though parts of us have unraveled at the seams

we reach for each other, evermore.

Open to me.

Let me catch you when you begin to lean.

When doubt awakens and begins to roar,

open to me.

Though love offers no guarantees, 

when your heart has reached my distant shore,

when I fall before you on bended knee,

will you open to me?

A Million Beats Away by Devi Nina Bingham

 

As my heart flies again, a million beats away,

I should be working, but my mind wanders to your

beauty incomparable, my devastating doomsday

your hopeful eyes lifting me above the shore.

Stunning and stunned is what we are. Love's promise

evermore calling my name and hers.

I could walk away from Fate's ravishing goddess

but now that I have seen her, common sense blurs.

You're a million beats away

as I reach for your embrace.

Take my hand in this crazy world of woe.

Don't either of us say things we cannot unsay

for heaven fell from the sky that day, and God's grace

took root and began to grow. Let's take this slow

when you are a million beats away.