Love anew
Love that lasts

Love the same
as ages past

Spark of interest
Catching eyes

Masquerades
of love's disguise

I've been hit
I'll confess

With the arrow
through my chest

I've been smitten
Through and through

Face made crimson
Nearest you

But this truth
I'll never tell

For this one
Is not for sale

Now I stand
No way to buy

The only one
that caught my eye

Maybe the archer
Made a blunder

This arrow
Burns my heart asunder

Eldredge
A simple knot

It was all I had
My only souvenir

From my travels

I had only worn it on special occasion
And thus

All events of significance
Wrapped up in a few turns

Of a piece of cloth

Eldredge
A simple knot

Maybe the life
I thought I’d live

Was snagged on another loop of thread
And wrapped up forever

Or
Maybe

All that’s needed
Is to tie another

In air we breathe
In air we thrive

The Pale blue shroud
The fortress high

A prison from
the starry expanse

That bears us up
On wings to dance

And hurls
The aerial oceans down

And smothers us
Until we drown

In sunsets
Bathed in tangerine

In air we thrive
In air we breathe

Oh how the winds of time have worn this house,
Sweeping away the vibrance that once surrounded it,
Leaving empty chairs at our table,

Gone,
In an instant ;

The wooden ladle,
Still in the dish,
Still warm,

After the commotion,
The constant locomotion,
The dust has settled,
And time grinds to a halt,

Oh, what great treasures are woven into these walls,
Every scratch, every crack,
A story,

Oh great house,
Oh great kingdom upon a time
Once ;

A sea,
Where the gulls call legends above,
In the open firmament of our memories,

Ascending,
And returning,
Dodging the salty spray:
Decay,

Held aloft by the winds of recollection,
An ever present mental convection,

A watched *** that never boils,

A memory that never fades...