> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.vesperapress.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Heart's Chance
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/hearts-chance/
- Published: 2016-02-13T02:43:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T00:24:43.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Relationships

You stole my heart again with kisses  
Placed upon my neck,  
  
With fingers clasped within my hair,  
You stole my soul again with wishes  
  
For time together,  
With promises laid bare  
  
You stole my mind with longing  
For your lips on me,  
Words sent through the nethersphere…  
  
And then…  
  
Nothing.  
  
And more nothing.  
  
Until my love,  
My soul,  
My longing,  
  
Sailed unanswered in the air  
  
You spoke repeated words of friendship,  
Promised to uphold my passion…  
But what if all my worlds of passion  
  
Are worlds filled  
With only  
You?  
  
What if you are my aspiration,  
My heart’s dream made real and true?  
  
What if you fulfilled my soul’s wish,  
Whether or not acquiesced by you?  
  
Would you crush me again  
Until I believe the world you do?  
  
That you and I and romance  
Exist only in lives we knew?  
  
This is not the end of romance  
It is not a sixteen-year-old’s dream  
  
I do not refuse my heart’s chance  
I’ll not live my life so lean  
  
So, come back, if dare you, once again  
In years hence, when my heart is whole,  
When my love for you can live;  
Let’s try this friendship, love or lust…  
  
My heart cannot cease to give