Reverie: A Poetry Collection: The Heart's Companion, #2

By Dana Gricken

From novelist Dana Gricken comes the second installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion.

 

Like its sister collection Ten Years, Reverie: A Poetry Collection is a continuation of poetry from the heart that speaks about love, pain, mental health struggles, body issues, women's rights, and more.

 

Once again, let this poetry comfort you and take you on a journey of understanding and healing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dana Gricken
• Release date: May 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224490837

Dana Gricken

Dana Gricken is a multi-genre author from Ottawa, Canada. She has written many novels including fantasy and mystery and has more books coming out soon. When not writing and reading voraciously, she enjoys watching Star Trek, hanging out with her cats, cooking and baking, spreading kindness online, and playing video games. Check her out at danagricken.com.

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INTRODUCTION

Reverie is defined as a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts—a daydream. And that is exactly how I felt writing the poetry in The Heart’s Companion trilogy with Ten Years being the first and Midnight Musings as the third. When I’m writing poetry, I can safely explore my own emotions and life’s lessons and reflect on them.

I could write a million poems but I don’t think I’ll be able to begin to cover all of the human condition. Grief, heartbreak, disappointment, love, joy. You can never write too much about them. While writing Ten Years, I realized I had too many poems and decided to turn them into a trilogy. Like Ten Years, Reverie has nine chapters, complete with lessons I’ve learned through all the major events in my life.

May this daydream-inspired poetry put you on the path to hope, understanding, and love. May it touch your heart and breathe life into your soul.

Welcome to Reverie: A Poetry Collection.

Me and my beloved poetry book that I wrote all my poems in:

CHAPTER ONE:

LOVE AND INFATUATION

Childlike

I’m falling in love with you like a little kid

Giggling and bright-eyed

It feels like I’m running through a field of wildflowers

With you by my side.

Will you show me all your hiding spots?

Can we carve our names into the tree?

I love how you bring out this side of me

How innocent it is and carefree.

I’m falling in love with you in such a childlike way

So curious to know more

It feels like I’m floating above the clouds

Like I’ve never smiled this wide before.

Loving you has me wondering

What I bothered loving anyone else for.

You make me feel so young

I’ve never felt this relaxed around anyone

I’ve only ever known love that was hard

I didn’t know it could be this much fun

Let’s forget all our responsibilities

Leave everything behind and just run.

I can be myself around you

The energy is so gentle and pure

When the world is too heavy and grown-up

You are my cure.

I think everyone should love this way

So simple and true

The world can keep their mind games and manipulation

I’ll take the lightheartedness I have with you.

If you take my hand

I swear, we can fly

I’m gazing at you with wonder

Like you’re the brightest star in the sky.

I’m diving headfirst into you

So playful and unguarded

I’m going to love you without fear

Like I’ve never been broken-hearted.

There’s no danger here

How calm you are makes the doubts disappear

I’ll go anywhere with you

Go on any adventure if you asked me to.

Some may say falling in love like this

Is so immature and naïve

But I can’t help but feel that childlike awe around you

How you swell my heart with hope and make me believe.

I’m falling in love with you like a child

So let’s build pillow forts and play pretend

I trust you completely

It’s both terrifying and exhilarating and I never want it to end.

Love The Pain Out Of You

I don’t have all the answers to life’s questions

But I’ll do my best

When your tired head is heavy

To give you rest.

And when you’re hungry

I’ll provide the sustenance you’re looking for

Don’t go searching for respite anywhere

Except at my door.

I want to be the one you run to for help

When you’re lost in the storm

I want to be the arms that hold you

That keep you safe and warm.

I want to be the one you think of

When you start your day

And when the world has turned against you

I’ll be the one who stays.

Let me take on some of your burdens

Let me lighten your load as much as I can

I can’t promise I’ll be perfect

But I promise to listen and try to understand

I’ll sit with you in the silence

And hold your hand

Give you wings to fly

And catch you when you land.

I don’t know what tomorrow will bring

But I know I’ll be by your side through everything.

And when you’re lonely and blue

I’ll be like the sun shining bright for you.

Don’t sugar-coat your problems

Don’t hide your tears

Tell me all your struggles

All your worst fears

And I’ll do anything to get you through

Beg, borrow, and steal, do what I have to do

To love the pain out of you.

Drinking Tea

We don’t have to do much

Rake the leaves in the garden

Or sit on the couch and watch TV

I’m having the time of my life

And I feel truly alive

Whenever you’re next to me.

When I wake up in your arms

With your bedhead and morning breath

I think, my God, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

I love that simplicity

To me, it’s tranquility.

Every day is fun with you

Even if we’re just in our pajamas, drinking tea.

A Thousand Lives

I have lived a thousand lives

And I will live a thousand more

But I’ll never grow tired of loving you

Your love is what I live for.

In another thousand lives

I will still be the same

Your hand will always be the one I reach for

My lips will only speak your name.

Time and death may separate us

But I have faith I’ll be reborn again and come back to you

And you will do the same too.

I will live a thousand lives

And then a thousand more

And I will devote them all to you.

Different Sides of You

I love you when you’re happy

I love you when you’re sad

I love you when you’re indifferent

I love you when you’re mad.

I’ll love you tomorrow

And I loved you yesterday

I love you when you’re here

And I love you when you go away.

So give me your grey skies

And all