If My Ship Berths Your Dock

If My Ship Berths Your Dock

Eight thousand miles more
and the same'd be in store...
if you were here I'd be cool
and dancing, not on a stool.

You've been with me all day
and I wish we could play.
Beyond what we'd likely say,
no emotions to keep at bay.

We are so alike, almost kin
with you there's no real sin.
We laugh, talk, and love...
without censure from above.
Shall we take this leap?
So sow what we'd reap?
Allow no regrets inside...
no need our love to hide?

I wonder about you and me
because we have been free
and we risk an ultimate lock
if my ship berths your dock.

Old and new, the then and now
if to tradition we soon bow.
Faithful we can be, yes,
but the daily chore's a guess.
We both know freedom, so
will we want to sometimes go
and feel the familiar wild?
Will either feel beguiled?

Can we remain truly friends
if the "rule" sometimes bends?
I have ambition beyond base
and can't live a single place
even if you become my home.

My center is like a dome...
equidistant any location.
So part of my own equation
is allowance for work to roam.
Could we maintain a true home
if I do Germany, Russia, Spain?
Would that cause you pain
or can you accept the gain
and often join me by airplane?
Is it okay for me to plan
what I need to do as a man?
Together, apart, again together
according to career weather?
I am liberal, open-minded...
no longer have same-kinded
so my thinking is expanded.
Alone, little of me is demanded.

Could you be happy with me?
Months I'd be home, then gone...
Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, Bonn.
I believe life's adventure.
Yet I want to be so sure
a wife would so understand
it can all be planned.

My tastes are simple but mature
so willingness I need to assure
to influence and know the world.
My own flag gets unfurled
as I look to global meaning.
Wisdom and fame gleaning,
I'd hope we could share.

This is not some clever dare...
it is a question of heart.
I promise to play my part.

If we marry, I'd be only yours.
Across seas, whatever shores,
I'd be building futures for us.
Your needs never cause fuss.
But I warn you here about me...
I put projects out there
about which many'd care
and must be available.
My talents are saleable.
You alone I'd now in life wed
as I've so recently said.
Your cheeriness, and ethic
in heart and mind do stick.

So daily, put up with me?
You fill me with glee.

More soon. I love you.

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