I long to feel your touch

To feel your embrace

Know every inch of you

Against my very skin

Till every ounce of my being

Is enveloped within you

To know what passion is

Know how it truly feels

I long to be able to trust again

That love won't use me

Leave me bleeding and bruised

To know it will call me again

Not make me feel wicked in sin

You can't even begin to understand

The pain and secrets deep within

The girl you see is only skin deep

Inside,my soul,steadily weep's

How I long to let you in

And take the key and lock you here

Love has hurt me so bad

Has cut me so deep

Show me how to begin

How to let you in

I need you to show me

I can trust again

Before I give up my love

I need you to prove

I won't be thrown away

When the love has been sweetly given up

I long to fall in love again.

~Shawna Cramer Pate~
2008