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Why do I do what I do?
Because I love you.
It's as simple as that.
I want you to be happy.
That is all.
Because that is love to me.
I love you enough to let you free.
To make your own decisions,
to make your own life.
Maybe I'll be in it,
Maybe not,
and I accept that.
That is love.
Acceptance.
That you are in control of one thing.
Your own life.
If you want me in your life,
If you ever need me,
You know where to find me.
I'll always be here,
For my first love.
The most prominent,
The very best,
but please, experience,
before you give up.
That's all I ask.
 May 2013 Danny O'Sullivan
ORLA
A velvet curtain call concluded,
A cheering audience cried,
The critics published long reviews
Predicting Broadway's newest pride.
The cast was given high acclaim
While, standing to the side,
The playwright could not understand
Why it seemed a friend had died.
 May 2013 Danny O'Sullivan
Rlavr
I will try my best
To not argue with you
About

things

But we're so
Inherently dissimilar
That we

*must
Nope, we're not married.
She holds me tight
After a long day
She kisses me good night
Big spoon lil spoon in bed
Sharing a bed get rest together
Under warm blankets and cuddle
Talk and share before falling a sleep
Kiss and pray lay together
watching tv sleep her heart on you arm
Her head on you chest
Holding hands sleep
Best feeling is waking up next to one another
1st thing you see is each other
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted *****
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's sensual ecstasy.

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find your mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reasons why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body.  i like what it does,
i like its hows.  i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones,and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz
of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh….And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new

— The End —