Step 1:  Understand that you are powerless when it comes to love
Step 2:  Open your heart to love or there is no chance to love or be loved
Step 3:  When in love there is no return to sanity
Step 4:  Turn matters of love over to the heart, your mind will lose anyway
Step 5:  Take inventory of why you feel this love (will help in future step)
Step 6:  Admit to yourself the exact nature of this love
Step 7:  Realize that love is worth the risk of all heartaches
Step 8:  Never put off love, act on it, tomorrow may be to late
Step 9:  Conjure up courage and then proceed to step 10
Step 10:  Express your love, use the inventory from step 5 as a guide
Step 11:  Be prepared for anything, you may or may not get the response you seek
Step 12:  Repeat step 1:  understand that you are powerless when it comes to love

My Captain my Captain
I swallow you down
You taste smooth
And so refined
You make me feel
Nothing at all
And that’s all right
I really don’t mind
Take me away
From my reality
Shut my mind
To all that’s real
I hope to forget
The woes in my life
So bartender
If you please
Another round.

What is it with this fatal attraction
For my soul that’s what it is
I have tried hard to ignore it
And not always give in

Erase you from my heart and mind
To be free from you at last
But every time you’re near
I simply have no chance

What is it about you
Keeps me wanting more
Your eyes mesmerize me
And pull me into your world

Your body makes my pulse race
I undress you with my eyes
I wish it were just physical
I’d have walked away by now

I love the way your mind works
Even if I don’t always understand
You make me think about things
That I never have before

The way you make me smile
And the way you make me laugh
Is just another of your facets
That keeps me coming back

I love the way you accept me
Like it’s ok to be myself
I let my guard down around you
And I take off my many masks

You seem to understand me
Even with all my many quirks
You even seem to tolerate me
When I’m acting like a *****

There’s so much more about you
That I just can’t find the words
To tell all the reasons
That you're driving me  berserk

That’s why I keep staring at you
With such passion in my eyes
You're my fatal attraction
And that I can’t deny.

I think I have found my purpose in life
To save those needing to be saved
I open myself to their pain and problems
Allowing them to heal and see better days
They beg me to fix their messed up lives
Help get me through my bad days
Help me through the long dark nights
They cry I can’t go on living this way
I come to their aid and be a true friend
Calm them till they‘re at peace again
I truly don’t mind and I am glad that I can
But I find myself wondering each day
Is it God’s laughter I hear
Because who can he send to save me?

IF I FALL
Will you be there to catch me
Will you lift me up and brush me off
Will you help me see the good in my life
Will you keep me safe from myself

TODAY
Can you be my guide and show me the way
Can you help me find a reason to go on
Can you always be there to be my friend
Can you be the shoulder that I can cry on

CAN I RELY ON YOU
To be strong when I am weak
To listen when I need to vent
To tell me the truths I need to hear
To be the one that I can unmask for

MY FRIEND
I am thankful to have you as my friend
I am hoping that I have been a friend to you
I am grateful that you came into my life
I am sure life wouldn’t be the same without you.

A race against time is what this is
A family history that puts me dead
A few years if I’m lucky is what I’ll have
To follow my dreams before I join my dad
What can I do to leave my mark on this world
Will I be missed and will anyone care

A hopeless romantic I’ve always been
But my biggest fear is that I’ll never be loved
I am loved by my family and even great friends
But the love I refer to comes far from within
It’s the deepest love that two people can share
A devotion of the heart that is passion filled

I’ve accomplished so many things in my life
And yet there is so much more to do
There are places to go and people to meet
Dreams to dream and goals to achieve
But if I could be granted just one wish
It’s to find true love before I rest.

I travel to the abyss
To find myself
To understand the
Meaning in my life
The need to save others
As I lose myself
What more of me
Can I give
The more I give
The more they take
If I don’t stop
I’ll cease to exist.