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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn't that what love is all about?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain