I think that our hearts are not one piece, but rather, made up of many little pieces
As we go through life, we give those pieces away to those we meet who touch us.
Once given, they cannot be retrieved, they are gone forever
In return, we receive a piece from those whose lives we touch
And we are allowed to hold those pieces for the time we are together
Somehow the pieces seem larger when they are together, perhaps more complete
Those who stay in our lives and in our hearts, fill in the missing pieces of our waning hearts
When we are young, we give pieces freely without reservation and we receive many in return
Our hearts are never empty
As we experience life and love, it can disappoint us and cause us to hold our trust
To hold on to the pieces we have left.
But the more we try hold on, the more we lose, for there are no pieces to fill the void
And if we hold on too long, our hearts, our hopes and dreams will wither and die.
So give love freely, be a child. Do not be afraid of the pain and sorrow
Take the pieces and hold them as long as you can
For, in the end, when all is said and done, it is not only how many pieces you gave that matters
It is how many you received in return.

Looking at you now
Seeing the candlelight flicker off your body
As if it were dancing shadows
I cannot think of anything that I have ever seen
That is more beautiful
You fill my soul, you mezmorize me
Numb my mind
tranquillize my senses
Euphoria
I will love you if you will let me
My passion re-ignites
with each look you send me
Like sparks to dry tinder
My soul is chaste and wanting
My love is pure and untainted
My spirit is undaunted
Lead and I shall follow
Lift me and I shall walk beside you
Ask and I shall carry you
Pushing my feet deeper into the sands
But only the weight of your indecision shall burden me
For your love makes me light
One set of footprints is the sign of two walking as one
And your body shall warm and strengthen me
You give me life and reason
You energize my soul
You are mine
Even though you stand alone in the shadows
As the candles dance

Gordon Merritt

Why love
and take a chance?
why walk
when you can dance?
why weep
when you can sing?
why winter
why not spring?
Why live
instead of die?
why smile
instead of cry?
Why angels
sing above
Why not
If not for love?

Think of every love song
that ever touched your heart
Put them down on paper
and select the sweetest parts
Put them all together
with the perfect melody
And still they couldn't start to say
the things you mean to me

For words are only words my love
and words could never say
The way you make me feel inside
That very special way
Mere words just lack the emphasis
They only say a part
of the love that I am holding
So deep within my heart

I guess I'm really saying this
to make you realize
I'm feeling something deep inside
of monumental size
It's taken much too long
for me to say right from the start
That it would take a million love songs
to say what's in my heart

Gordon Merritt

If time were not so fleeting, it would be easy to be patient.
But hearts need love, and bodies grow old.
How can a heart so filled with passion
Be so bereft of fulfillment?
Too many who do not deserve love
Have love freely given only to toss it to the wind
Like the dying leaves of fall.
Why do I crave love so?
Why do I yearn for passion?
Why do I think of bygone days of youthful splendor?
Love comes so easily to the young.
I was a handsome lad...
Now too many wrinkles in my face
Too much grey on my temples
Too many holes in my heart
No one wants an old dreamer
But I will never stop dreaming
Can never stop dreaming
Or I might as well shrivel and die.
A heart without love, or at least the dream of love
Is a heart empty and dark
A heart full of love and the dream of love
Will always light the way.

I sat and watched the stars tonight
They burned so hot and shone so bright
Reminded me of your sweet love
and lifted me so high above
I sat and watched the angels sing
And saw you there with your new wings
you sang a sweet sad lullaby
It made me smile, then made me cry
Then back to earth too soon I came
Twas Bittersweet, to hear your name
on Angels voices high above
Sent back to earth without your love
I sat and watched the stars tonight
they burned so hot and shone so bright
But I touched heaven for a while
And I shall dream of you and smile...
Gord Merritt...

If I could... would I love you again?
If I could go back and undo it all?
You took my heart and not easily
You took my soul but not freely
I resisted, but you persisted and
my heart finally relented... to give
you all I had... you made me believe.
If I could would I reject you?
would I push you away as I wanted to?. would
I save my heart the pain?
If I could would I love you again?
No... I would not love you again...
I could not love you again because...
I never stopped loving you.

A new song I wrote titled "it all ends in why?"
There are times when I miss you
There are times when I cry
There are times when I I'm lonely
and times when I lie
And say I don't love you
Though I don't know why
I aint fooling noone
Though god knows I try.
There are days when I'm sunny
There are days when I rain
There are days when the storms come
again and again
I guess it just pride dear
that helps me hold on
And stop me from dying
or going insane.
Chorus
There are days when I'm lonely
There are days I am blue
There are days when I'm happy
Just thinking of you
There are days when I'm alright
and there are days that I try
But the days that I miss you
all end in Why?
Verse two
There are people who like me
and people who don't
There are people who love me
But there's one who just won't
There are people who know me
and know I'm a fake
Every time that I smile (at you)
they can hear my heart break
There are times when I wake up
and times when I sleep
but the last one is harder
cause my ache is too deep
But when I do sleep nights
what I try not to do
I try not to dream
Cause It's always of you
Chorus
There are days when I'm lonely
There are days I am blue
There are days when I'm happy
Just thinking of you
There are days when I'm alright
and there are days that I try
But the days that I miss you
all end in Why?
Gord Merritt

I hate that I am broken...
Fragmented into little pieces..
I hate that you could do that to me.
I was always so strong
now I am just a dysfunctional wreck...
I hate that I am broken...
and I wonder can I ever be fixed?
Who wants something broken...
who wants to spend the time...
who cares enough to care enough
to take the broken pieces...
to touch them
the heal them
to make them whole again
and make them unbroken
to love again.... who wants broken?

Sometimes the most beautiful stars are not the ones that shine the brightest. They are ones that always shine in the distance and help you find your way...
Gord Merritt

As long as men have eyes
There will be someone to adore you
For the beauty of your face is
like the setting sun as it kisses the water
on a warm summer night

As long as men have ears
There will be music in the world
For to hear your smiling voice is to
hear the skylarks sing
in the early morn of spring

As long as men have bodies
there will be longing for your touch
And aching need that borders lust
and rivals cool summer breezes
on a hot summer day

As long as men have hearts
There will be hearts broken
For you are sweet as sorrow
As you wear your beauty inside your heart
and not as a shallow mask for vanity’s glory

As long as men have life
There will be a will to live
For to be in your presence is to bask
the light of heaven’s grace on earth
and want not for ethereal gifts until time is past

Gordon Merritt

Perfection…
wrapped in a silken cocoon
Oh how I await the beauty that emerges
when the silken cocoon is shed
Glorious in her new finery
Angelic beauty
Tender as the petals of a rose
Fragile as a snowflake
to melt at my touch
Like cool water
wet on my tongue
Sating my thirst
An oasis in this desert prison
I will drink of her love
Gorge myself on the fruit of her passion
fulfill my hunger
Cool myself in the shade of her being
And, as the night turns into day
I shall again feel the heat
The fire of need in my soul
The memory of her touch
The longing for the night
And the silken cocoon

Gordon Merritt

If she knew, if she could see me
There would be such a reverie
If she knew, if she could see me
Then her heart could fly free
For she would never want
and she would never need
And she would never cry except for me
If she knew, she could so fly so high
and touch the stars way up in the sky
if she knew if she could see me
Then her heart could fly free
And she would laugh and she would sing
and would not want for any thing
and she would never cry oooh no...
unless she cried for me

Gordon Merritt

If I could read your eyes
would they love?
If I could touch your hand
would it quiver
if I could touch your hair
and inhale you...
could you make me smile again?
There is no answer but to try
I am waiting for you
to touch your hair and hold your hand
To look into your eyes..
To love again.. to love those eyes
to love your smile, to touch your hand
And breathe you in...
to live again...

I want to lay you down upon my bed
To make you shiver with delight
as I lay my mouth upon you
To taste the sweetness of your love
To savor your response
like fine wine
I want to be your connoisseur
to taste your passion
To me you are just desserts, like maple honey
sweet and flowing

Feel my touch… want me… need me
All I ask of you is your bliss
Throw away your reservations
and open yourself to me
I will fill you
with my desire
I will fill you
make you want more
inch by inch, kiss by kiss
hour by hour
Passion, fiery droplets of molten love

The miracle of this night
is that it will not end
And as the night turns into day
I will again drink of your love
Needing it,
Wanting its sting on my lips

Gordon Merritt

If ever I held you again. If fate would be so kind
I would not forget to love you for even one second
I would not look past one second to the next
I would not lose one precious second
For seconds lead to minutes and then hours and then into days.
I wasted too many seconds not holding you
I wasted too many minutes not taking you in
I wasted too many hours not loving you,
No...I would not waste even one second.
I have spent too many seconds, too many minutes
Too many hours, days, months and years... thinking of you
Loving you... wanting you back in my arms.
And I will spend the rest of eternity
A second at a time
Just dreaming of your touch.
And if I could hold you one more time
If fate would be so kind... I would make each second
Last a lifetime.

Gordon Merritt

Lips quiver
fingers
softly trail
shivers
butterfly kisses
ever wanting
needing
sleepless dreams
desire
shhh
don’t say a word
just…
kiss me

Gordon Merritt

i took my love out walking
along the river Rhine
i gave my love a picnic
of camembert and wine
i read my love a poem
her head upon my knee
i sang my love a sonnet
beneath the shady tree

i gave my love a flower
a budding rose of white
i gave my love a warm embrace
and held her o so tight
i gave my love a token
a simple band of gold
i gave my love my open heart
for her to have and hold

i gave my love a promise
of my eternal love
i gave my love a wish I sent
to all the stars above
and in return my love she gave
a simple loving kiss
and that was all it took for me
to want to do all this


Gordon Merritt

Tis sad, words to far and distant to be heard
Sentiment of a bygone era, to faint to hear but for the chosen few
Too few now to be counted and I fear too soon gone.

A brushed cheek, a flushed cheek and one heart skips a beat
Hand to cheek means nothing now but to those who capture hearts
and to those whos hearts need capture...

Hair in my face, a perfumes trace to speed the beat of a lonely heart
Touch of a hand, nape of neck and the lobe of an ear to lighty bite
Too subtle for these times but

Desire is a lost art, want is a lost need... to fast we speed
and loose the charm and fervor of lust... for want is the seed of love,
and seeds need time to grow.

Gord Merritt

shhh, it's late. Sorry I woke you
I know that it's late
but I'm glad your awake
Shhh it's late we cant wake the kids up
yeah I know that it's late but
i love you with no make up
shhh it's late don't mind me I'll just check out
that little spot on your neck about
there.
shhh its late, don't wake the kids up
just lie there and sigh while I
shhh. it's late.

Raven
As the night calls you
Sun near gone and all light fading
Heat of the waning sun has past
and yields to the pallid moon

In darkness comes the lust of night
and trepidation fades
Howling comes my desire and righteous need
and with it your raven hair and burning eyes
To tear my indecision away

Oh Raven
As the night calls you
And bares your breast to my sinful tongue
to feed my needful want and leave me sated
and yet unfulfilled and ere wanting
The nectar of your womanhood

Raven
As the night calls you
I am yours so to possess
And yet you see me not as yet
My age perhaps is beyond you lustful thought

But Raven
As the night calls you
My sin is to feed my eyes on you
and ere to slake my need and desire
My mind takes hold of you in the dimness
And I love you yet again

Gordon Merritt

If a tree falls in the forest
Can I kiss you behind another?

If I could dream a thousand dreams
And make each one come true
I would not dream of distant lands
Or calm lagoons of blue

I would not dream of diamonds
Or other precious gems
Of chalets in the Swiss Alps
Or villas on the Thames

I would not dream of riches
Of silver or of gold
Or dream of lasting youth
And never growing old

If I could dream a thousand dreams
And make each one come true
I’d only need the first one
The one I have of you

Gordon Merritt