Oh Love ...

What you do to us!

How the sight, sound, smell and touch of you
Make the tide within our hearts rise and swell.

Ohhhhh and that rush of delicious heat!

That envelops a body from tip to tip
And makes knees go weak.

Oh Love ...

Our eyes overflow with your delights!

We are rendered both alert and powerless.
Submerged in a flood of feeling.

Swallowed by the current ...

Is not being weak, but being open
Allowing you to become more
Than a stone shroud waiting to crumble

To talk and accept your most painful fears,
thoughts, experiences, memories, scars.
To do so, is true bravery

Is not being thought of less, but to being
willing to change, when necessary
To own those weaknesses, and purge them into strengths

So that one day, you can help others
Find a place where the only road is not so dark
Where a vulnerable heart will stand forever

As the Sun rose up above my head,
I leave this land with much unsaid.
To pass the time was now my goal,
To live alone a broken soul.
Out of reach like the Sun and stars,
Round my head I'm chasing cars.

A burning flame’s secluded light,
Like the thought of you still burning bright.
In a heart black made of pain,
I still use your name to keep me sane.
Our time had passed and you moved on,
I still struggle to fathom that you are gone.

I walk the road in hope to find,
A reason in time to rest my mind.
But a dimming glow and faulting belief,
Leads my heart to find no relief.

I will push on with a budding need,
To learn and grow and nurture the seed.
I will succeed of that I've no doubt,
I will live and sing and dance and shout.

I have realised now I don't need you here,
But the thought of you still holds me dear.

I will move on with time I'm sure,
But a feeling like this has no cure.

Weeping
Wishing
Missing
His soul mate gone from his arms.
Gone to another life.
His heart aching and hurting,
as if struck by a dagger.
Or has cupid removed the arrow which
lead him to his one time lover?

Growing ill of this loneliness.
His hand holds the last picture of her.
Even that was fading fast,
as if a curse was casted.
For when she dies,
all of her must disappear from sight.

The question of sorrow spawns in his mind.
"Why couldn't I have taken her place?"
One being heard his question of sorrow,
as if waiting for eternity.
Lady Death springs forth from the voids to bid his request.

There before him, his soul mate stands.
Gravity pulls him close to his love.
"Kiss me and forever together we may live",
as if a spell swept over him.
He kissed Lady Death.

The way your lips use to feel on mine
it seemed like we stopped time
The way I felt when we were intertwined
I knew that you were mine

They way things use to be
I know I ruined it
but I can't stop from doing it
I hate this feeling that I have...
I can't take it
I know I'm being over dramatic
but I just can't stop from thinking it

You got to close so I had to drift away
I thought about you when I left
but I knew it was for the best
I couldn't take that you could see the real me
but I left before you could hurt me
so now I'm on to the next
You knew that I was insecure and scared
but you never knew that I really did care

I know you;
I recognize the sorrow in your eyes.
These roots run deep;
They are the calluses of the world.
You come from the center
At the heart of time; you are proud,
And trusting, wounded and bleeding,
And your shame drags you down
Like a lead weight into the
Darkest regions of your mind.
I have seen your daughter; I believe
She has your mother's eyes.
She is the brightest jewel you
Cannot touch, and you are wading
Water until it is time.
I think I will call you Narcissus,
And pluck that flower and
Place it between the pages
Of a treasured book, the one
Celebrating the life of the Poet
Who no one loved until he died.
I know you are hiding from the
Gaze of the Gorgon's eyes, with
Arrow notched and bow drawn,
With the intention of slaying
Her before you turn to stone.
I know you walk the dark woods
Where there is no path,
Insistent on making your own.
Here, I drop a pebble and watch
Your face ripple until it comes
Smooth again.
The calm, black water frames
Your haggard face and masks
Its hidden depths.
Behind your face there is
Darkness looking inward
Like a collapsing star.
Your mouth moves like mine
But it does not speak; it betrays
The artist you think you are.
Just one thing before I
Let you reclaim the depths in
Which you swim.
I have denied knowing you
Three times already, and told
I look a lot like you I have sworn
"I am not him."

Lately I find
There’s nothing to write about.
Because for once in my life
When I lay my head down to rest
I regret nothing.

I remember those poor decisions
I made as a naïve young girl
And I recall those moments
I wish I could have back.
But I see clarity
And have stopped blaming the cosmos
For when bad things happen to good people.

I am instead thinking
as I fall asleep
How thankful I am
for the loving people around me
(and across an ocean)
And for not being so ******* up
That I'd forget that fact.

I am proud
Of where life has led me
And the hard work it took
Just to get here.
And I am excited
For the prospect of a new journey
where all of those bad decisions
have no effect.
And just maybe,
Oh maybe.
I’ll get my happy ending.