Her eyes
Have the simple beauty
Of a blue mountain flower
Yet they ensnare me
Like the azure sky
Always beaming
Radiating her joy
Shimmering as the blue Pacific
Complimenting her already flawless features
I could gaze at these all day
And ponder about the person behind them
But I am not afforded that luxury
I must glance from afar
Hoping that one day
They may look at me
As I do at them

I have finally found
Something without comparison
The most beautiful eyes
These eyes, have ever seen
Of such a green
As to make the rainforests jealous
And the most luscious of trees
Desire their beauty
And profoundness of expression
Gazing at the very thing that desires them
And imbuing everywhere they go
With that mystical green light

Spring is truly springing
The ice has melt
The river flows
The trees are lush
The blossoms here
The purple lavender
The yellow daffodil
The red rose
The white tulip
All have come
Cause winter's done
The clouds have cleared
The sun shines on
The girls are out
Their skin as well
With dresses galore
Showing all their beauty

Her face lights up
Red from the chill
The smile shows up
To brighten the rest
Rudolph with red cheeks
Snow on a sunny day
Come together on a flawless base
To make a perfectly beautiful face
And when the redness disappears
None of the charm shall be lost
There's nothing to lose, there is no cost
My eyes see one thing
A ravishing little face

I just want to live a sheltered little life
No need to experience the horrors of this world
I've seen enough and heard enough and felt enough
There is no need to live it for myself
I can weep and rage and whimper for all the time in the world and yet nothing still will change
If I could cry an ocean of tears for all eternity
In the name of all the things that have happened to people and all that people have done
I would
But I can't
There's only so much a person of great sympathy can take
Of watching another's suffering
And so I shall weep in the silence of death and hurt
As long as I live
For all who have lived and died of immense sorrow
But I will live my sheltered little life
And try not to immerse myself in their suffering
If I did this would lead me to so many other souls
Through the porcelain of life and to the doors of death
And so I shall live my perfect little lie
And none shall notice
Living in this world of deceit

As long as there are dreams of the future
There is hope
As long as there are imaginings of the future
There is hope
As long as one does not fail do hold something dear
There is hope
Even when the sweet kiss of death seems the only deliverance
If there is thought that goes ahead
There is hope

They called it the war to end all wars
But then came another
And another
And another
Our hope acted as blinders
Ignoring Mankind's stupidity
And the persistence of a wounded and humiliated man
To seek revenge
And devise cruel ways to exact his twisted agenda
Optimism took over in place of realism
The world chose to look away
Until it was all the world could see
People hid and fled
From locked rooms came hissing, and not dripping
From fields and buildings came loud cracks and bright fires
Instead of birds chirping and bright smiles
Robbed of their life, people were put in ghettos
Robbed of a loved one, people wept
All this suffering
With cause an unfair punishment
Given for choosing a side