My love for you
flows endlessly
through my fingertips
hold my hand

Let my weakness
make you
strong

You are fragrant
Because you are young
You walk through life
Like you belong
I want to stop you
Just for a beat
Tell you
The devil
Hovers
Beneath

Your love
is a love without danger
a love that
will make me laugh out loud
forever

You will so soon
be in the place of your dreams
you will lay your head
exactly where you schemed
your struggle
will be forgotten
your journey
ill begotten

Let it lie
I know
I hear you
trust me
or not
what do I know
but just
for now
please
maybe
for a minute
let it go
let it lie
and fly.

This
my little one
is just life
showing its teeth
I can’t help you
that would be
defeat
this my little one
you must face all alone
at least
until the next time
you get home

I love the jagged edges
of you
they sometimes cut
but will always be
the best part
of you

Ahhh there you are
You came back
Unexpectedly
Suddenly there you are
How good to see you
God, how I have missed you
How glad I am you came back
Intact
Battle scars
Yes, I can see
Fainter
Than when you left me
still
I can touch them now
And help you heal
You came back to me
Perfectly
Imperfectly
And
beautifully
Intact

I know you
but
you don’t know me
I know every thought going through your
head
You know me
but
I don’t know you
you know every though going through my
head

I love all the bits of you
that shattered
and fell across the floor

You are the woman
I always wanted
to be

I know you feel like
you are falling
and failing
and you might be right
but you have such a long way
to go
I won’t reach out
and bring you home
yet….

You scattered
little bits and pieces
of yourself
across the floor last night
as you stormed off
to bed
indignant and in pain
I have gathered them up
will keep them safe
You will reclaim them
sometime
somewhere
hopefully from a
place
devoid of pain.

Dream big
if you still believe you can dream
otherwise
there is no point
and I have failed you.

You offer
Tiny sprinkles of yourself
the bits you think I will like
and I do
I just wonder about the dusty
dark damp bits
that I could love
even more

Stay
exactly as you are
Stay
right where you are
Stay true
Stay blue
You’re doing okay
Stay strong
Stay wrong
Stay true
to who you are
Stay you
Stay exactly where you are

You will never know me
by asking
how I am
I am changing
day by day.

Daylight fights to surrender
all of it’s precious light
Nighttime slowly wins
overcoming with all it’s might
daylight has to spend
each and every night
fighting to wake the world up
so we can rise and take flight

Daylight
makes its entrance
through small familiar cracks
Today announces it’s arrival
uninvited
but loudly
none the less
Reality joins the chorus
banality holds up the back
Together they defeat me
I have no answer back

Those were long languid days
Sparkling wines
and beautiful children
overhanging trees
and flowering baskets
And there we were
living amongst this
beauty
and light
and sunshine
Easy days that lingered into the night
Blond dogs that caught the light
You were easy to love
I was restless
I was stormy
And I was always
fighting
against
being
yours.

these are the days
I know you don’t believe it
in all honesty
neither do I
yet still
somehow
is it possible that
these are the days?

You shined very bright in my life
For a beat
Dazzled me
Sunburnt I retreat
Still
I will always
remember
The brilliance
Of your sun

we rushed from the warm inside
to the cold outside
of a New York City night
Hailed a cab
then caught sight
of a lonely figure
slumped in the night
Someone help
Someone said
she’s in trouble
her soul is dead
and I thought
it is indeed
but what makes her different
from everyone else
I’ve met
Tonight

If this is tomorrow
I’ll buy a ticket
If what you’re selling is real
I’ll shake on that deal

He didn’t ask
And I didn’t say
I didn’t play
and he didn’t stay
our life fell into
unfolding
dismal
decadent
desperate
soul destroying
Decay

My words can never be sweet
because
they weep
of intended deceit

I remember
the unrelenting chill
and freeze
of that cold December snow
as we trudged on together
through bitter biting winds
you tried to tell me
your burden was too heavy
you had to set it down  
I  couldn’t hear you
my burden was too heavy
too
and the winds howled
hurling horrific blows
and the cold sold my soul
as we trudged on together
one step after another
through that final awful too cold
December snow.

If you love  me
even once in a while
talk me out of this
I am deep into another
mistake

We will have to dig deep
to find what is beneath
the random words
we throw
at each other
every day

I will never hold a sword to you
nor a weapon
except perhaps
a mirror
for I know it will wound you
deeper
upon reflection.

This is deeper than I ever
wanted to go
I can take real
Delve into the unknown
I can swim to the surface
When the  waters are unknown
But seriously
This
Even for me
Is way deeper than I
Ever wanted to
be

I will lay everything I try to be
Side by side
With everything you pretend to be
And defy anyone
to know the difference

Every time you say goodnight
you take
Just another little
tiny bite
out of what could have been
and surely should have been
my total
and complete  
forever
hearts
Delight

I am showered by words
Tonight
they  infiltrate my mind
refuse to ignite
hover
just a bit out of sight
they tempt me
delight  me
laugh at me
disappear on me
But mostly
strangely  
oddly
they will always
unexplainably
own me

I can do almost anything
but
even for you
I cannot deliver the
morning

The postman delivered
your letter
It’s just two hundred years
too late
and two hundred words
out of date

It is dense here
Rummaging around inside your mind
Let’s let a little light in
see what we can find

I am offering my hand
and even now
I know it is not enough
to save us
but still
I am offering my hand
reach out
know this
I will lose it
before
I will deny this

I wanted to write
just
one word
for you
I thought
that might
prove
the depth of
my love
but
I can’t .

Despair is growing on every tree
In the world tonight
no matter where we are
Or who we are
Everywhere
our gardens are overrun
With hate
With fear
And disbelief
Each one of us
Crippled by defeat

There is a whole world out there
that simply doesn’t care
about your words
or mine
And a big world in here
desperately trying
to write the next
line

I’m stuck in a corner in Paris
Desperately dialling  home
to  someone who might
answer
at  this late hour,
caller unknown
I’m desperately dialling
I’m desperately dying
I’m stuck in a corner in Paris
totally alone
desperately clinging to life on my
own

Take my nothing
and turn it into wine
then we can drink all night
hands in heart
from a cup
more or less
devine.

Roll the dice then
I’ll take my chances
we both know
only one of us
can win

I will go down with this ship
or die
trying.

You don’t have to look like me
Or be like me
Or think like me
You don’t have to dance like me
Or laugh like me
Or cry like me
You don’t have to do anything at all like me
To love me
Or have me love you back
You just have to know
like me
that differences
They paper up the
Cracks

In a world of indifference
you made a difference
at least
to me
and that
is worth the
difference

Nothing can change my
indifference
to our
difference
except perhaps
a sudden quick change
Of opinion
by you