Pyro
You're the fire in my soul,
Can’t keep it down, gonna burn me whole.
They said take I’d better take it slow
But while I’ve got the courage I gotta go.
Maybe we were never meant to be,
But now we just have to see...
Strike a match, and watch it burn
Up my bridges so I can’t return.
Take the ashes, put them in an urn,
Testament for later to the lesson I've learned:
Sometimes you gotta take chances,
And love's one of those complex dances,
You get burned if you mess with a flame
But that's part of the price for playing the game.
Please
I'm the better. She's the worse,
But you've only got eyes for her.
I just want to be special to you,
You're special to me.
I look in your eyes, you look at me,
But I'm lucky you can't tell what I'm thinking.
Saying nothing staring at me, stop doing that,
You're pulling at my heartstrings....Please....
Please, please, love me,
Please, please, be with me.
I can't say anything, you chuckle and smile,
Can't breathe, my heart beats a million miles.
But then a sound distracts you from me. It's her again....
And you're leaving.....
Now I'm all alone,
While you're with her,
Driving her home.
What is it? Am I not enough?
Pretty, skinny, kind enough?
Please, please, love me,
Please, please, be with me.
I want this to end.
Her with you, and me just your best friend.
What's this? The second or third time,
She's broken your heart? It's about time that instead you're mine.
Honestly, I'm being selfish, I know,
But I sick of seing you go.
You say, "I really love you."
I say, "I do too." But you don't mean it the same way I do.
Please, please, love me,
Please, please, be with me.
Please, please, don't hate me.
Please, please, realize and notice my beauty.
Please, please, know that I only care about the best for you.
And the best for you is me. And the best for me is you.
Please, Please, I love you.
Please, please, love me too....
Strong and Patient, New and Old
In dappled green and dappled gold
Your song floats by upon the breeze
This scent of new and fresh and old
It whispers hope of care and ease
From tight within the winter’s grip
While cold cuts spirits like a knife
You wait in patient stewardship
Of silent will, of sleeping life
And when the winter melts away
You’re there to fill the Earth and sky
With testaments to nature’s force
The stubborn beauty they belie
This beating heart that thaws the snow
These woods I love, these woods I know
Winter Love
Love, thou art like to a winter day
Gleaming, shining, crisply bright
With frosty eye upon my plight
You hold the heart that I, trusting, lay
At your small feet. Do not crush it, pray!
Dainty fingers hold it tight
But gentle, till winter’s light
Blurs its harsh edge to a soft decay
And spring blooms in your eye
Waking dormant roots
That lay quiet in your breast.
Love, give me leave to try
To wake love’s tender shoots
That we may harvest summer’s best.
To Love What Is Lost
What is life but his heart ever so enticed,
His creation from the bees made such fresh honey.
Lips blazen with Autumn’s warmth and its spice,
In I breathe the wine that eminates sweet.
Solace as we lay through tangled limbs,
His eyes withhold the flower and its thorns.
Set ablaze my hearth the fire within,
In the familiar hums of a house untorn.
But the quiet was soon to be unbecoming,
Can't death be failure against our defiance.
I wait for my bones to stop their shaking,
I watch the world and all of its silence.
Such sweet memories that remain in dreams,
I dare not be stolen ever from me.
Song of the Glade
In thou I waltz beneath the bower white,
A woven canopy of floral vine,
Where incensed airs and zephyrs in sunlight,
Provide a bouqet for the berry wine,
Approaching to the altar in mid-day,
and here the honysuckle winds upon,
the marble tablet swirled with stormy gray,
protruding busts of syrinx piping fauns.
Oh season of the drones and butterflies,
When honey’s in the air amidst the fray,
of multi-coloured vibrant floral dyes,
and warbling notes of birdsong that portray,
the primavera vox of motley hues,
that conjures solstice darklings to debut.
My Team
With a single hand you support my spine,
Reminding me the weight of the world is not mine.
The challenges you lay on the table each day,,
You strengthen my armor and bolster my will.
You reflect my worst fears and surface them all,
To assure me I'm tough, even though small.
The challenge you lay on the table each day,
Force me out of my own stubborn way.
And I cannot begin to bear you chagrin,
When I lose in a game, I always should win.
So I strive to be more, to grow and mature,
To break every window and open each door,
To equally play and wholeheartedly stay,
Thankful and greatful through each passing day.
When Time Began
You came to me before I knew of time.
I found you on a clock’s unnumbered face,
And as we fell there was a cruel chime.
The hands and dials marching to their place.
You lay beside me in seconds gone by,
I feel you in the hours that have passed.
The sun and moon trade places in the sky,
Reminding me I cannot make you last.
But, there are nights when moments do stand still,
And you are full before me, without end.
I try to fool the clock, its steady will,
To memorize you, revel and transcend.
But secretly, I know, beyond my idle rebuffs,
That no amount of time will ever be enough.
A Cool Breeze.
You arrived in my life like a swift cool breeze
Sweeping me all so suddenly off my feet
All those feelings I could never release
They would break free whenever we'd meet
Many a moment were lost and I could never seize
But now are within my grasp ever since you came
Me who before never even thought of your name
Now I cant even get you out of my head
Why is it so that I feel this way
Why do your visits make my heart sway
All the romances I used to read
They did not speak of this need
Never preparing me for this emotion
About giving someone all your devotion
Is it because you now occupy a part of my heart
That I am unable to get you out of my head.
Many a sleepless night you have kept me awake
Thoughts of you plague me but just for your sake
I'd even lose sleep if I'd see you the next day
Once you appear I forget what I'm about to say
Such is the hold you have over me
Yet you are so oblivious to see
How without you I just cant be.
Ode to Richard
What would it be like
If we went flat broke-
Lost our house, and our cars
Our dinners out and our shows
We’d have no pool service or house cleaner
No cable or phones
No highlights or birtchbox or manicured toes
We’d be left with what looks like
One of my happiest times
Eviction notice and Pawn shops
When I was on Cloud 9
Ramen noodles and five channels
Counting change
Sitting in your front seat
How weird what was strange
Having been in the background
You were finally mine
The novelty of knowing
A reciprocation of kind
The whole world was against us
Wanting us to fail
Turned backs and shadows
That disapproving chill
We closed the door and sat in the glow
Rabbit ears providing
The Jerry springer show
The square feet didn’t matter
While you were in that space
I went to the dark side
For your smile and your voice
The richness that fills me
That I could never replace
Is your laughter at my jokes
And the direction of your gaze
When I fell for you
I didn’t dream of a house
A white picket fence or a fancy night out
I didn’t think about cars
Or the pool we would have
I just wanted to be given
To you by my Dad
The promise you made
While we were sitting in the car
At Robertson park
Seemed hopeless and far
I didn’t believe you, but didn’t have the heart to say
There’s no way on earth
It could work out this way
But I’d just felt your hug
For the very first time
And I wasn’t done memorizing
My heart against my mind
I’d always choose the latter
But that’s when you said
The promise I didn’t believe
But I just nodded my head
“You’ll wear a white dress
And your Dad will give you away”
The thought was absurd
That would be the day.
I made my decision to ignore my mind
We’d look for treasure without a map
I didn’t care what we’d find
I’d rather walk circles with you
Lost in the woods
I’ll follow you blind
I always would
But look where you’ve brought me
Your promises kept
Making my life better
Than I had right to expect
So what would it be like
If we went flat broke?
Worst case scenario
I think we would float
We’d roll our sleeves up
And get to the grind
That’s adventure; this yours and mine
You can say you married up
But I smile, I know the truth
I'm happy to roll a blunt
And ride the 610 Loop