There are cracks on her face 

Wrinkles  

She watches the time pass 

Feels it tick by 

Each mark another worry that I’ll stop seeing her beauty 

She sees the lines by her eyes 

I see the LOVE 

Each crease, a badge of a thousand smiles, the echo of countless laughs 

To her, time takes  

For me, it gives 

More symbols of her beauty 

Fissures for her love to pour out 

For mine to pour in 

Tokens from her heart, her soul 

She thinks the wrinkles diminish  

like a rare stone, they each add a facet to admire 

Each groove an acknowledgment that her heart is too full of love 

Too big for her precious vessel to contain

Come play with my darkness, I'll let you in

Show you my madness, I'll show you sin

The good days are over, love has run dry

I am the monster

Run

Cry

Enter my darkness, I'll strangle your light

My demons are hungry, please, put up a fight

The demons in me are cunning

They watch and wait so well

Strike out! Then running

Pulling me back to hell

But they wait and gaze so long

As I claw out of the depths

I forget they are of me, in me they belong

So when I reach the daylight

Content once more in love’s embrace

Darkness flows, futile is the fight

Back to hell I go, without a trace.

She speaks to my soul

She sooths my storm

Turns my walls to dust, my heart to a garden

And as she tends my garden, it grows.

With each gentle caress, giggle, feel of her lips

My garden grows

In the warm light of her love, time slows

Still my garden grows

Her eyes, her voice, they plant the seeds

Her lips, her heat water and feed

Trees tall as mountains, grasses ever green

For her, it flourishes. The garden in me

I forget the years before we met

Though they once seemed like an eternity

The struggles, torment, the stress leave

Tears, sweat and blood give way to peace

The anger fades to bliss, gently rustling in trees

Like leaves in the garden that grows in me

Know if you approach, to tread carefully

She is beyond sacred, she’s my destiny

I will defend my love, absolutely

A lover in a garden, I am not

But a warrior in love, that is me.

She was like the moon

Sometime shining brightly, sometime hidden from me

Always there, always far

So many nights I'd spend admiring her light

Beautiful, silent, a thousand miles away

As I watched her, like the moon, so much beauty to see

But there was more, hints of mysteries, intrigue. The answers...not for me

I stopped searching the stars, focus internally

The most unexpected surprise life gave to me

Though too far to see, all this time, while I was watching her, she was

watching me

A string , a memory, pulling in my head.

The words, pleasantries, beautiful lies you said.

Promises made, so few you keep,

More tears for you, than any other, I weep.

My best parts I gladly gave.

Foolish how I thought it fate.

Now the memories are tainted shells,

Yet still my heart must wish you well.

Though mark these words, love, this vow I keep.

Evermore you're dead to me.