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Nov 2015 · 1.1k
Invisible Ink
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
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The above 20 lines are in invisible ink
It took me all day, tell me, what do you think?
Nov 2015 · 504
LAST
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
If I had known it was the LAST time I would climb on your mountains

If I had known it was the LAST time I would lay in your dew misted valley

If I had known it was the LAST time I would feel your warmth seducing my skin

If I had known it was the LAST time I would taste your sweet waters

If I had known it was the LAST time I would breathe your spring flowers

If I had known it was the LAST time...

I would have traced each step until the path became clear

I would have laid in your valley until the morning was near

I would have soaked in your sunshine and never be cold

I would have  bottled your waters to drink when I'm old

I would have breathed you all in and then hold my breath

And the memory of you I'ld  take to my death
I invite comments good and bad! My skin is leather. I'm a novice and wish to improve!
Nov 2015 · 474
Steam!
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
The train of despair is rolling now
It's building up steam
Faster and faster the tunnel approaches

Just a passenger, not the engineer
Powerless to stop my descent

The darkness now envelops all I once saw
There's a cold dank odor in the air

If this be my end, and my end this might be
Throw coal on the fire and build up more steam

Take me fast to the wall, don't linger, don't wait
It's the trip that I dread, not the crash at the end
Nov 2015 · 410
Change the World!
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
How do I teach if I've never been taught?

How do I love if I've never been loved?

How do I give if I've never received?

Teach, love, give

Change the World!
The solution is simple, but so complex
Nov 2015 · 951
Listening!
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
There is a memory to make so let's not waste this time
as it will never come again

Take my hand and let me feel your complexity
Slip into my arms like the most comfortable
blanket on a brisk winters night

I ask not for a kiss for its fleeting for sure
but let me truly know you and feel your heart

That is forever!

I'm your vault, I'm your net,  I'm the safety you seek

I am here now
I'm present, I'm listening, I'm yours!
Nov 2015 · 393
Gone
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
There was a life
There was a love
There was a time I'm thinking of
There was just this
Just happiness

And now it's gone
It's gone......

I turned around
And you weren't there
No sun shines anywhere
Just loneliness
There was your kiss

And now it's gone
It's gone....
Nov 2015 · 454
Hidden Beauty
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
I feel you're a flower at the end of the day

When the sun has gone down and it's hidden away

All it's beauty is hidden, in a ball, oh so tight

Away from our gaze, this just isn't right

I howl at the moon to shine brighter on you

But it won't heed my cry so what can I do?

I'll stay by your side and be your bright light

Always the gift of your beauty,  in sight
Nov 2015 · 410
Sweet or Sour
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
The next words that I write could go sweet or go sour

They could last for mere minutes or go on for an hour

There's a power I have when I start to create

It can be somewhat awful or truly be great

I try to pick words so a picture they paint

Sometimes there is color and sometimes there ain't

I hope what I write, in the end, makes you feel

Like a diner who's about, to consume a great meal

If you're happy and full when you leave from my table

Then I'll continue to write, as long as I'm able!
This is what happens when I get no sleep!
Nov 2015 · 1.2k
Soaring!
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
I look to the sky and imagine I fly

Look at me now I'm two miles high

Above all the clouds the sky is so blue

I'm soaring and gliding and all of it new

I'm looking at trees, way down below

The air is so thin, light headed I go

I'm falling to Earth, still not a care

I'm higher on Earth, as long as you're there
Read it to someone and she said I should try to  write about sad things?
Nov 2015 · 4.1k
Eternal as the Seed
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
A seed so small, holds so much promise, keeps it's secrets for the sun

In the spring reveals and life renews, when the waters run

Eternal as the seed we are, for God has made it so

The knowledge that's inside of us has no place else to go!
Nov 2015 · 495
Second Kiss
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
As he opened her door, he noticed a tear rolling down her cheek.  It was all so overwhelming, the happiness to be exact.  As he wiped the tear away with his thumb, she leaned her head into his hand. Running his hands through her hair, never breaking eye contact,  hundreds of thousands of years of instinct took over.  When their lips met the world that they lived in disappeared and they were immediately transported into a new existence.  Where there was two, there was now only one.  They were lost in each other, not knowing where one person started and the other ended.  

It could be argued that no first kiss has ever been as deep or sensual as the second kiss. Their experience was no different.  Easily the second kiss in the car was the kiss they would be thinking about every second that they were apart.
Want to turn this into a book
Nov 2015 · 418
Happy Pills
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
Take control of your life
Take control of your heart
You're never too old to have a fresh start

No one can judge you or make you feel bad
It's your perceptions, you see, that are making you sad

You'll never need drugs, forget happy pills
The thought that you take them just gives me the chills

It's as simple as this, I know what I say
I'll give you my secret how I'm happy each day

It's a decision, you see, it's all up to me
I choose where I look, only happy I see

When bad comes along,
tries pulling me down.
I just smile and laugh as if nothing is wrong.

So live in the now and love all that you see
I'm telling you how just let yesterday be.
Nov 2015 · 7.2k
The Perfect Anchor
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
A perfect Anchor will hug you on calm seas as you travel and explore.
When the winds blow and the sea pitches, the same
Anchor will dig in and hold you steady!
It is always in the background, it is strong and understands its role!

— The End —