I'm standing on the ledge again
How did it all begin
I was minding my own business
But it struck with such quickness
Where did that razor come from
I'm afraid I might succumb
It was like magic it just appeared
The temptation to pick it up is something to be feared
Because if I do I'll slice from ear to ear.

A honeybee hovers
Over my lawn,
Scouting nectar
Like a drone.
He hums a song
I love to hear:
Honey, he hums,
I'm coming home.

You said you were scared to lose me.
Perhaps the reason is because all of your
close friends have left except for me.
When I asked you why you were scared,
you said you are scared to lose me because
you love me. I love you too, but know this
love is not fear, and fear is not love.  

© Matthew Harlovic

Her graceful wings
She got at birth
And her talent to dance
Used her wings to fly away
Whenever she got a chance

With her happy feet
And a smile that heals
She dances through every pain
Her truthful heart and her humble soul
Will save you from the vain

The righteous way
Is the only way
For a hero like she is
No matter what she has your back
Shadowing her bliss

Blessed with love I must have been
To have her by my side
She gives me wings
So I could fly
My dancing butterfly

A victim of deceit
a defiant lover
she cradle's her way back
as life moves on with such speed
like a bullet train it flashes past,

Vandalized to such expectancy
her heart experiences frailty
and faith shatters
always told to wait
she herself ruined her fate,

Men entered her life
and left, leaving behind pain
unbearable reminiscence
moving on with her woes
knowing well she err'd,

Poignant
she sheds tears in vain
a state she enters into
heart broken and worthless she feels
Though intended, she repeats her mistakes o'er and o'er again.