Say it softly
And it’s almost
Like praying

When I speak your name
It is a prayer

To who?

Your name slips out
And with it the thought of you

Your smile lighting up everything
Your eyes keeping me still
Your words leaving me speechless
Your breath taking mine

You
Your name

When I say it softly
In the moments before I sleep
A tether to the world
Until I remember
You are in my dreams too

Or in the moments, minutes, hours, lifetimes
When I can not sleep
When I am the only one awake
And all I can think of is
You

Or in the morning when the sun
Wakes me up
And I think I see your face
So I call out to you
But you are not there
Maybe it was only the
Whisper of a dream I can’t remember

Catch me if you can
Said the girl
Are you a boy or are you a man?

I am a man
Said the boy
And I can
Catch you!

He said as she ran

They say the eyes are the
Windows to the soul
If that is true
What will mine tell you
That they have not already told?

I was lost but now I’m found
You pulled me up out of the darkness
Right before I drowned

When I’m feeling alone
Or broken inside
You fix my pieces
You make me right

You make me smile
When I want to cry
You make me want to live
When I want to die

You dance with me
In the best of times
And hold me in the worst
Rain or shine
You make me feel alive
And I know you are mine

You make me happy
You make me believe
You make me whole
You are all I see

When you kiss me
I swear that you stop Time
And all I can think is
You are mine

I love the sun
That warms the ground
I love the sea
Where I am found

I love the children
Fair of face
I love the cats
Full of grace

I love the dogs
Loyal and true
I love all the
Shades of blue

I love the birds
That sing when I’m near
I love my parents
Who hold me so dear

I love the woods
That make me feel
I love the darkness
That is so real

I love my friends
Who make me laugh
I love the feeling
Of a nice hot bath

I love the winds
That runs through my hair
I love to read
In a comfy chair

I love the rain
That makes me cold
I love the dusk
That makes me bold

I love the moon and stars
That always shine so bright
I love the sunny days
And the moonless nights

I love the pain that
Makes happiness more
I love walking barefoot
On a rocky shore

I love everything
I love it all
I know it is there to catch me
When I fall

I'm barely breathing, barely breathing
How can you not tell?
I'm barely breathing, barely breathing
Can you see how far I've fell?

My heart is thumping, heart is thumping
How can you not hear?
My heart is thumping, heart is thumping
It happens when you're near

My legs are shaking, legs are shaking
How can you not see?
My legs are shaking, legs are shaking
It started when you smiled at me

My breathing falters, breathing falters
whenever you pull me close
My breathing falters, breathing falter
Now we are nose to nose

I love you so much, love you so much
So much that it hurts
I love you so much, love you so much
when you say it back you make it worse

I know you love me, know you love me
I know it from everything you do
I know you love me, know you love me
It will be just me and you

I say I love you
You say I’m sorry
I say I need you
You want to be
Friends

It’s okay
I will just
Slowly die
Of depression

I cry in the morning
I cry in the night
As I think of what
We could have been
I guess the timing
Wasn’t right?

Or are you a ****
Just stringing me along?
I wrote love songs about you!
No that’s wrong
Not true
I am just
I am just me

Is there something wrong with me
Or something wrong with you?
Are we both just messed up?
Yeah, the last one is probably true

I guess I thought I loved you
But now it is time to move on
We would have been so perfect!
No. thinking that is wrong

I am strong
I am beautiful
I will find someone new
I just wish that someone
Were you

The wind is like a cat
Stealthy and swift
Slinking and swooshing
Around this or that

And when the wind caresses
Your face
Is it not unlike
A cat’s affectionate tour de grace?

The wind is also like a cat
In the fact that the wind is
Very particular about
Where it goes, you know

Sometimes one tree
Rustles and bustles
And another stands
Still as stone

Oh my God
Forgive for my sins
There is a woman I love

I never meant for it to happen
Didn’t think it would go this far

But I love her, God, as I love you
So tell me
God
tell me what to do!

How can I choose?
How can I decide?
To continue to live my life
Or to truly be alive

When I’m with her
I can feel You there
But when I get to close
When I breathe her air
I fall apart intimately
And there is only her and me

I would give up the world for her
But can I give up You?

I am a lost sheep, Father
Take me away
Blanket me with sleep
Give me words to keep
Help me make this leap

To her.

Please know this Father
I would have it any other way
But she is in my soul and flesh
And she is there to stay

So I
Choose her
I can not do anything else

Who am I to argue with fate?
Forces greater than me
I am starving and yet I ate
I can finally see
She is
Every single thing

Oh my God
Forgive me for my sins
There is a woman I love

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There was virtue there was sin
There was what could be
And what has been
There was heat and there was ice
He was naughty and I was nice

Twisted
Turning
Frozen
Burning

There was freedom and there was a cage
There was triumph and cold dark rage
There was a fight and there was a dance
There was chess and there was chance

There was dark and there was light
There was dawn, day, dusk and night
There was a second and there was a lifetime
There was a drowning man
And I was his lifeline

There was pain and there was joy
There was a man and there was a boy
There was a woman and there was a girl
There was the universe and my whole world

Where the river flows from the turquoise foaming sea
Passing over smooth seashells, worn down from the relentless motion
The water feeds the earth and the earth feeds the tree
But all of this, life, comes from the ocean

And the trees that came from this water
That began as a seed and grew so much taller
Huddle round like a mother and father
The little trees that still need so much water

These trees, when the wind blows
Their leaves dance a graceful ballet
In the swirling, twirling endless breeze
And they show me what joy can mean

The dark wood becomes a beautiful sandy
brown when a ray of light falls on it
The tree, who have seen so much,
felt so much, must not move to help a soul
The roots are sunk down into the moist earth,
never to see the ray of sun that lights up the tree they are part of.

I’m sitting by my window
Just waiting for time to go by
When I think of you and I smile
Oh I smile inside

As I think of how when I see you
I fall right into your eyes

As I think of how when you smile
Everything seems right

As I think of how I want you
To always be by my side

As I think of how I love you
More than words can describe

As I think of how I need you,
How I need You more than life

And I smile inside

A cat pushes
Out of the bushes
After a flickering tail

He is stalking
Never walking
He slides around a rusty pail

Like a practiced ballerino
He glides on the tips of his toes
His hunting techniques never fail

He comes close
And goes still
As if striking a pose
Then he pounces
As if pounding a nail

He hears something in the nearby ferns
And stops. Acting unconcerned
Like he’s just looking around
On his way to the mail

He quickly carries off his prey
His third glorious catch of the day
And that is the end of this tail

Do you remember
When were you a child
The time of day
That you were wild?

When all the world
Was a fairyland
Of twinkling stars
And the moon shining
Over cold hard sand
And the constant silent current
draws you in
And holds time still for a moment

While you take in
every sound and sight
And feeling and being on
This cold windy night

You ran up and down the beach
Your hair floating and flowing
Everyone else just out of reach
Until with a burst of speed
You caught up
And then raced on and on
Feeling as if the world was only you
Running and running and running
until dawn

As the moon lit the world from above
You felt just bursting with love
Maybe you spun around
Arms wide
Eyes wide
Heart wide
Future wide
And thought about what was to come

Or maybe you just thought
that this was all there ever was
And all there was to be

I had a night like that
I stood by the sea
Feeling the wind tousle my hair
Feeling it whoosh around my legs
And thought all there was to be and to see
Was just me, right now, standing by the sea

This was all in that magical time
When the sun had come down
But it was still barely light
It wasn’t still day, and not yet night

When you could still play
And your mother’s fears
You could dissuade

When everything looked more
Beautiful and dangerous
Exciting and joyous
Thrilling and threatening
But just overall perfect

When you could pretend to be a
Cat slinking through the woods
Or an eagle soaring over the world
Or an explorer exploring
Or a soldier soldiering
Or the goddess of fire smoldering
For you were anything at all
That you wanted to be
Because you were free
Totally free

At dusk