Love

It tears at our hearts
Fills us with grief
An all consuming grief
We cannot change the past
We cannot predict the future
How will it end
Can we make it through this
It takes a lifetime, to pick up the pieces
Aching, deep within our souls
Tossing and turning at night
Will we do it right
I can see it in your eyes
Burning through your soul
Begging to be let out
Help me through this night

free

let me go
into the darkness
alone, desperate
let me hurt
so that i can
feel something

i must go
to be better
but i will
come back
i always
do

Change

winds are blowing
leaves are falling
all around us
things are changing

there's a feeling
in the air
of both hope
and desperation

i see the stars
at night the sky is clear
i just stare and stare and stare

music

her voice
rises through me
like the sound of
a newborn cry
it moves
me to far away
places
places only i
can go
melodica
moments
entranced by the
sound of
her voice

the answer

what if i said yes
would you
still be here

would your
smile
still sparkle

could we make it
through this storm
without you

who would get
me through
this pain

hold my hand
caress me
in the dark

love me till
the moon
stopped
shining

what if i said yes

unfinished

we sit upon the floor
our hands touch
there is a flutter
a new love
whispers of sweet nothings
and we laugh
and we laugh
there is hope
with each other
we will love
talk all night
an old love
simple
understandings
reflections
of each other
and we laugh
and we laugh
together
old and gray
we will laugh

the sadness
is creeping in
not this time,
i won't get lost
you can rear
your ugly head
but i am strong,
i can fight
the darkness
is around the corner
trying to get to me
but i will hide,
it won't find me
i will make it
through this
i will find the light
maybe i
will win this time....

sweetness

maple, syrup
sugar for my
sweet, sweet friend
pancakes
in the morning
talk'n in the evening
sweetness

the secret

she stares out the window
the world is moving all around her
she doesn't notice
he touches her hair
she doesn't notice
she wonders if they know her secret
he takes in the pure, sweet scent of her
she doesn't notice
she can feel her body changing
he tells her of his love
she doesnt' notice
she cries when she's alone
she wants to love
he kisses her
she doesn't notice
she stares out the window

words

words
falling through
my head
swimming
singing
laughing
talking
can't get enough
of
words

EMPTY

The phone rang,

nothing.

Her heart felt,

nothing.

Everybody around,

nothing.

GRATIFICATION

As I looked into her eyes,

the sparkle of innocense

shined through.

The sound of her voice

crying through the night.

The smell of her creamy skin--

ever so soft, untouched.

Knowing her love,

feeling her strength,

holding her closely.

Baby.

FROM

Away we go, off

off to another land.

Through trees,

and meadows

to a place of beauty.

But where?

Where from

to where we go.

From a world of bad,

of evil and despair.

Where do we come from,

where do we go?

To a place of beauty within.

RED

Hearts, diamonds--

love, despair.

Jacks, Queens--

men, women.

Love, Hate--

to what do we owe this?

A gamble in cards,

of life and love.

Solitary.

TREES

Nothing inside, hollow.

Special people, feelings show

emptiness reached gone--

trusting still,

gone,

love.

a poem

WOMAN

At first she seemed insufficient

he should have known

Abruptly she launched--

cutting edge generation of Women

Wife, mother

rarely criticized

her own rules

Women with professional careers

hardly noticed

Abruptly she launched--