I believe
The sun
Burst into flames
At the first sight of you
And hasn't stopped since,
I believe
The ocean
Waves crashed
At the first sight of you
And haven't stopped since,
I believe
That time
Took it's first step
At the first sight of you
And hasn't stopped since,
And all the things
That are perpetual
Are so because of you,
How your beauty never fades;
Your smile
Jump starts dead hearts;
And your love
Is the eternal
Changing of the seasons
Witnessed by all,
And as I bask in your sunshine
And listen to the waves
Time is the last thing
Going through my mind
Replaced by you eternal...
APAD13 - 103 © okpoet

How many stars
Will die
How many
Will be born
Until I see you again?
How many tides
Will come and go
How many lakes
Will dry
Until we come together?
How many songs
Will play
How many
New will be written
Before we laugh again?
How many breaths
Will I take
How many
Heart beats
Will pulse through me
Before I come apart
Ligaments and tendons
Undone like Lego's
That won't snap
Into shapes again,
Until I see
The laughter of your eyes
Shine into my soul; then replenished...
APAD13 - 072 © okpoet

If we were advised
Our lives would be televised,
How would we be?
Would we be worthy to see?
Would we ourselves
Want to watch?
Flip through the channels
Every single one of us
In high definition
Being human,
Would it be
A horrible reality?
Or would we be entertained
By the insurmountable variety?
Stalkers of the new generation
Greater than any YouTube sensation,
Natural born stars and entertainers
Shuttled into their spotlight; invisible containers
While the rest of us wonder
If we can laugh at every blunder,
Would emotions die
Or run rampant empathy
For a possible scripted lie?
This future I hope to never see...
APAD13 011 - © okpoet

I hope she gets there,
Wherever she's going,
However far; however high,
Always off running; I know she'll fly,
Can no longer be her wingman,
I've got to land and nurse this tan,
Burning I was so close to the sun,
Might as well have had a gun
To my head ready to blow
Away my brain red in the snow,
I didn't want to see the truth,
Even as she pulled each tooth
Told me it was nothing
And I believed everything
Even as I questioned it all
So this house of cards will fall,
Because I was delusional and willing
To follow her thinking it a good feeling;
But who am I to love or need;
I've never wanted, never paid heed
To any pretty face around me
All failing to be anything I should see
Instead just going with my flow
And her splendor? Just mop n glow
Blinding yes; but not glue
Therefore one IS better than two,
This road has diverged; split and ended;
While it lasted; knowing her was splendid...
© okpoet

She thinks
To herself
"I look nice",
But it must be
Her mind
Is confused
And shocked
When it sees itself
All adjectives frozen;
This is me?
How is this possible?
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the most
Beautiful of them all?
And the mirror too
Is silent in awe,
Unable to answer
She's more than nice
How can she not know,
Blue skies
Through her
Eyes is like through
Windows an
Ocean front view,
Gorgeous she is
With a smile like
The white sands
Of Destin,
Her beauty wins
"Best in..."
APAD13 - 051 © okpoet

You are beauty
In high definition;
Like Rembrandt's
Greatest rendition,
You exude elegance;
Causing a delayed remembrance,
Catching everyone's eye;
As you float gracefully by,
Provoking wonder;
As all burst asunder,
From the top of your head;
To the tips of your toes can be read,
Humble acknowledgement of you;
As so many exquisite things do,
But one thing troubles me so;
Why your smile is rare,
I'd like to know,
For someone so charming;
Your unhappiness is quite alarming,
Who would dare make you cry?
Such an idiot deserves to die,
But for now I pray for your laughter;
One day soon you will get
Your happily ever after...
© okpoet

Who told you
All the words
I needed;
I wanted to hear?
Like coloring in
By the numbers
This ugly is to the bone,
I'm caught up
In your barbed wire
And as the lies cut deep
I'm struggling
To be free,
Seems I just can't
Get away,
And these scars
Are bleeding  all over
Wished my heart
Were as calloused
As my hands,
But the blisters are
Just beginning;
And what hurts worst
Is I know this isn't
The last or the first...

APAD13 - 128 © okpoet

Oh no
It's wearing off
The high
From yesterday
Is draining away
Rain gutters clean
No longer hold it in,
Need another
Larger dose,
Need to up
The rations
Increase
The morphine drip,
Refill my prescription;
Doctor says
An overdose
Would actually
Do me well,
So what do you say?
Break me off
A bigger rock next time?
Ease my trembling hands...
©okpoet

Read my words
Like you play
The piano,
Like the blind
Read braille,
Feeling every
Tiny bump,
Drawing
The big picture
From an uneven
Surface,
Smoothly conveying
All the thoughts
Hidden in it's flat
Dimensions,
Unfolding bigger
Than a pop-up book
Before your eyes,
Read my words
Like children
Play in the depths
Of their sandbox,
How they taste
The dirt and fling
It at one another
Joyous smirks
Upon their faces,
Living every second
Unaware and uncaring
Not yet shackled
By the wrist of time,
Read my words
And remember them
Like stones in the river
Though they too fade
Under the rush of the water...
APAD13 - 061 © okpoet

I wish she'd miss
But she'd rather diss,
I was never ink
She's severed the link,
Our bridge is in the chasm
I was but a spasm,
She's been over
Lost my four leaf clover,
I'm dead and dying
But I can't keep from lying,
To my broken heart
Wasn't real from the start,
I used to hold her hand
But now I feel like a bag of sand,
Because I was so high in the clouds,
I didn't ask why,
But I almost had it all
And I didn't think I would fall,
Only in the sunsets it dawns on me
To have nothing is to be totally free...
© okpoet

Compose me a song
I’ll never hear;
And I’ll write you a letter
You’ll never read,
Words built up in me
Before we met
Legos now scattered
In a sandbox
Where no one plays;
See the silence thick
From the echoes
Yet to be heard
Lying under the shallow grains
Waiting to be unearthed,
You pull me
From the shadows
I hide behind,
Glimmer in my eyes
Catching your reflection,
The only light I’ve ever known
Halo on your head bright
But turn the off the stars and find
It’s only the moon’s light cast
Making you appear angelic
A savior to my soul lit
By hopes and dreams
I cannot reach without you,
I retreat into the dark
Seeking another light
I’ll never find again…
© okpoet

Itsy bitsy spider
You aint,
Crawling
Towards me,
Down
Comes the rain,
You run away;
Out comes the sun
And you keep on coming,
I'm just watching you;
Think you've caught me
In your web,
But don't you know,
I'm just strumming
Your lines,
Coaxing you out,
Come to me,
I'm not afraid;
You've got
Those piercing eyes,
You've scared or eaten
All the rest,
But I'm unlike them,
You intrigue me,
Take a bite;
You'll know
I'm immune,
I can leave
At any time,
But I'll sit by you,
Itsy bitsy spider
You aint...
© okpoet

I'm seeing rainbows
And pots of gold
Before me,
A myriad of illusions
Carefully unfolding
Like Oz before the land
Unbelieving
Unconvinced;
The magic
Lost in translation,
A sun shining
Even in an overcast day;
Happiness not so distant
After eons of pain,
Does my sight betray me?
That I can not trust myself
To embrace the joy due me?
Have I shed enough sorrow
That I now can only laugh?
The promise
Of a bright tomorrow
Finally beckons;
And I'm inclined
To accept...

APAD13 - 150 © okpoet

You don't have to say hello,
Barely uttering
A threatening
Guttural bellow,
If that frown
Beneath your entitled crown
Is all you know,
The furrow
Of your brows
Could scare away crows,
Your lips uncurled
Just a straight dark line
Like your heart in a jar
Flat lining,
Dead and rotten
I dread to imagine
How you are
By yourself unfurled,
Shattered mirrors and tattered
Wallpaper all about scattered,
Stagnant water in clogged drains;
The decay alone
Could set the tone
For the saddest
And cruelest
Of Broadway shows,
If hell froze over I fear my dear
Your disdain
Would burn a hole
Right through to where I sat,
So if you don't, if you can't
Angle down your nose
And you've all but forgotten,
How to tip your metaphorical hat
And butter a more cheerful 'how are you?',
A nod; just a nod will have to do...
© okpoet

This is not ***** music,
It's a heavy beat
With a deeper depth;
Catering to
Our instinctual need
For rhythm,
From before
Our births,
Layered in the womb
Of our life bringers,
We had bass
In our ears;
The pulse
Of our mothers' hearts;
And we kicked
To that tempo,
And now here it is
Again louder
And oh so real,
Gritty; jarring
Rattling our bones
Comfort it brings
In it's constant groove
We bob our heads and step to...
© okpoet

She's looking
For her Cali King
The one to endure
To hold her
In comfort
To support her
Meet every need,
The one to lean on
To stand by her
And grow
Through the hard times,
And the good
The thick
And thin,
By her side
Through
The sweet
And bitter
Sturdy
And dependable
No matter
What the spill
Each and every
Tear and thrill
Always and forever
Till either is laid
To rest,
Maybe she'll just settle
For a couple pillows
And this mattress...

APAD16 - 024 © okpoet

The minute
I look away from you
Thinking I can
Shrug you off like Atlas;
Like once I've scratched
You'll never itch again,
This is the moment
I can feel your eyes
Piercing
Like from the barrel
Of a ******'s gun
Miles away,
And I wonder at your aim,
You're no longer
The stranger
You once were,
And it's all but apparent
That you're here to stay
And like reeds that bend
In the eye of the storm
I sway to your intent
Devoid of resistance,
Like one flinches
At the sight of a needle
And before I can scream
You're already gone;
With the wind
And all it's whispered secrets...

APAD13 - 137 © okpoet

Cheer up lass
Why bother with all that jazz?
Always a new day
Like fresh hay,
Roll in the grass
Even if it isn't green
Just add a little water
Or burn it down with gas
The future remains unseen
It's all fodder,
Best left to those
Who chose,
To sit in despair,
Pull up a chair
And smile
For a little while,
Soon you'll laugh
Your full glass though half,
Will soon fill
But until,
Don't think of your plight
Dream, dream in light,
For nothing is more real
Than your hopes and the love you feel...
©okpoet

I want
*** and champagne
Love and all its pain,
Under moonlight
And past the sun's brow
Night and day
Through rain and blue
I want
All that is you,
Lava flows
And fires burn
As does the fiery orb
In the sky,
But nigh;
None are ablaze
Like the yearning within
My soul,
What scorched earth
Would bare rock
Like that of my beating heart
For but a gaze
From your eyes,
For but the graze
Of your skin,
Electrostatic ignition
Between my fingertips
And your luscious curving plains,
Like lighting strikes
And storms thunder
In the space separating,
The void that keeps
This earnest frothing
Churning need alive
Another day...

APAD14 - 006 © okpoet

When did you
Become the sun?
So warm and inviting at first
And then when I went
To hold you close
So that I would never again
Feel the cold in my bones,
I found out you were
93 million miles away,
But you still burned through me
Melting my defenses
SPF 90 couldn't block you out,
And I could see
Your reflection even at night,
Teasing me,
Tried to squish you out with my thumb
And I slept
Thinking you would never come
But you do again,
Just as intense
As the day before,
Though clouds get in the way
And I'm deprived again
I don't dare lose hope
For your absence
Will be short
Lest I die frozen abandoned
But I would never know...

APAD13 -123 © okpoet

She teases as she plays smooth as hot-
Butter in a pan working with what she's got,
No less the sizzle when she chills;
Even without the bells whistles and frills,
She's still more than you can handle;
Hot hot hotter she burns like a candle,
Yankee long the wick never will the flame go-
Out in the darkness she lights the way,
Never letting you get lost go astray;
And if you do she'll bring you back never forego,
You before any other as long as you never-
Do her wrong, sing along with her forever,
Because she is so much more than what you see;
You must feel what's beneath it all the smiles and be,
Straightforward, and you'll get to know her;
Innermost thoughts, watch her jump tumble and were-
It not for fun still splash into your world not a clash,
Just full of life filling with smiles and just a dash;
Of glitter amongst the scattering of your ideas,
Which she'll bring a different perception to, free as-
The morning mist come from the mountain tops,
As she laughs running, for she never sleeps never stops...
© okpoet

When the sun rises
As a brand new day
And you're not there,
I wish for the sky to cloud
And for the dark to come again
So I can curl back up
A ball in the corner,
To ride out
The empty days,
When a happy thought
Makes it's way
Into my head
I feel guilty
And ashamed,
You're not there
To share it with me
And I wish to make it go away
Because I don't want to be glad
Without you,
When I turn any corner
And you're not there
I wish to walk backwards
And never turn the page
On this story
That seems to have ended
Long ago,
But somehow I know
There is yet more to be written...

APAD13 - 122 © okpoet

She was
The prettiest
Of summers,
My reason
To dream,
She made
The winter warm
And made every day
Last a season
Or so it seemed,
But what time passed
Between our laughs,
A bitter clock
Ticked it away
Twice as long
When she parted,
Like an eternal
Haunting of a drip
From a faucet in the night,
And inconsolable was my wait,
Diamonds to a parched tongue
Riches to a bed ridden man,
But I wouldn't trade this hell
For a purgatory without her...

APAD13 -140 © okpoet

I met a most exceptional woman;
Thought she was a keeper; make me a man,
She stirred my soul like no other
Made me forget the world even my mother,
I opened up again that part of me
That I promised no one would ever see,
Giving bits at first and then whole  
Pieces of my heart complete with my soul,
She took it all it seemed with eager hands
Held mine while I daydreamed of foreign lands
We'd visit traverse the continents
But in this fairy tale there were holes and dents,
I was not to be a lover but a friend
Forever until the bittersweet end;
She had someone for whom her life was for
And I thought it best to close this door
But she pried the **** from my fingers
And what she said to me on my mind still lingers
Declared she needed me as much as he
That this was just how it was meant to be and we
Would travel this road together
This truly made me feel so much better
Made me so happy I could cry;
She was not just another floater in my eye...
© okpoet

Woke up and found you
Fell asleep and lost you,
Now I'm in a limbo
A nightmare,
Can't find the way out,
Can't pinch myself awake,
Everything is slow motion
Getting ****** down in the water
Wave after wave pummeling me,
I'm clawing at the sand
But I can't get a grip,
I let you slip
Away,
Not that I wanted to cage you
But I got used to your steps
That smile anticipating,
Banter in you laughter,
Now all is cloudy,
I miss the sun,
I miss you,
Uphill
Is all that awaits me,
Regret that I drove you away,
That's all that's left,
Roller coaster closed
But I'm still sitting here
Sinking feeling in my gut
Anticipating the next loop with you
That will never come again...
© okpoet

My heart escaped
Out of my chest
Lies flapping
On the ground
Gasping for love,
It's slippery
And I can't catch it
Try and place it back
In the empty bowl
In my chest,
Like an echo
That will never
Answer back,
Your memory
Will be the only
Record repeating
In my head,
I forget not to
And remember
Every moment
Comes back
And I'm drowning
Once more,
Cold water
In my nose
Hurting
Flashbacks,
Maybe you must
Stay away,
So I can continue
To love you,
Like this forever...
© okpoet

The wheels are turning
Rubber burning,
The lines are blending into one
Night is slipping into the sun,
Been driving on the highway
All through the dark lost my way,
My GPS is broken
Fido has just awoken,
We're going nowhere
But I really don't care,
At least we're far
Tuned-up my car,
For the long trip
Shift **** in my grip;
Feel the engine rumble
Change the station static jumble;
Blaring I find the perfect song
It won't be long
Before I'll need to fill my tank
My lucky stars I've go to thank,
I'm heading down this trail
Looking for my holy grail,
Left behind a world of pretension
Seeking to blaze my own constellation,
As long as I've got with me my best friend
I'll never hit a dead end...
© okpoet

My mind on you,
Stuck like glue,
Can’t think of anything else,
As I walk the beach & pick up shells,
I try to think of something different,
Like are you an angel; heaven sent?
'Cause nothing else matters but you,
Cupid has struck me with his arrow through,
I’m possessed & can’t concentrate,
This feeling I love but I also hate,
Jealousy fills me when you talk to someone,
But I can’t convince myself to be the one;
You should be with,
When I sleep I writhe;
In agony because you are not with me,
I wish I knew how I could make you see,
That I could be so much more,
Than what I seem to you; whom I adore,
If I knew the spell that could bind me & you,
Long ago I’d have proved my feelings true,
But for now my heart cries with sorrow,
As I wonder if you'll ever know,
How this heart of mine could love,
A woman like you, beautiful dove...
© okpoet

We were separated;
Miles apart a gap created,
I saw you;
Under the sky so blue,
But our eyes did not meet;
All emotions I could deplete,
To describe the angst and sorrow;
No words would I borrow,
My faltering breath;
Teetering on the throes of death,
Dare I fleet across?
This great expanse pebbles toss,
I aim to proceed;
To my want I take heed,
To hold her near;
Whisper in her ear,
Sweet merry nothings;
Of all the things,
I would love unto her;
The velvet of her lips like cashmere fur,
Her embrace like flowers petals;
Upon my face; and no jeweled metals,
Could deem her worth;
This love of angel's mirth...
© okpoet

I prompt thee
To see
The television
Prompter,
Yelling at me
In caps lock,
Buy one  
Get one
Free,
But wait,
Call now,
Static intermission,
Interrupting
The human
Condition,
Prompt
DOS;
Black and white
Flicker,
Press ESC
To exit,
Life...
© okpoet

She’s in the mood
But everyone is playing
She’d play too if she could
But she’s just praying
For someone to listen
To a concert of words
She plucks like chords
A harmony when written,
As she conducts her pen
Like a scalpel she dissects
The truth of her life and then
She spills onto all her secrets
Dark and many;
Entrenched and heavy;
But she’s digging
Fighting and kicking
Through the black tar
Layers laid thick
Seen at a glance from afar
And brick by brick
She cracks the walls
Widening the halls
She’s writing through
To break a smile
And not be blue,
This will take awhile…
© okpoet

Oh that I could
Lift that veil of mystery,
Behind those twinkling eyes
An obscure conundrum,
For when she smiles
All that just floats on
Past my intrigue;
And I'm endeavored
To hold that image in a frame,
Forever caught still
In a permanent light
Immortalize her soul,
Which shines bright
A guiding brilliance,
I want to know what drives her being
Holds her heart together
Makes her rise and set
Like the stars and their sun,
How she makes a moment
Of pure inertia seem fun
All without lifting a finger
As she makes the moments drift,
Seamlessly into one another
I release the shutter,
She can't be contained
Not within these confines
She is a super nova,
I can only hope to grasp
But the glimmer of her rainbow...
© okpoet

The thunder screams
I feel the lightning
Course through me,
Black clouds
Getting darker,
Day no more,
Now night
Darkness
Is the only light,
Rain drops heavy
I can cry
With the storm,
I can't stop yelling
I feel the pain
In my bones
She's gone
With the winds;
And the thunder
Has taken
Her place,
I'm stuck
In the downpour;
No umbrella
Can protect me...
© okpoet

If I can't dream
It does seem,
I'm constantly
And inadvertently,
Searching
Lurching,
For the difference
Preference,
Between the day
And it's decay,
The night
And it's dark flight,
Towards the sun
Flaming bullets of a gun,
Scathing the premise
Of my demise,
Unable to surrender
The greatest pretender,
Left to grieve
Though alive, bereave,
The ballad of steps
No longer visible in sand nor steppes,
At my side, curbside, seaside
Yet I can't run and hide,
Only thing I know is to fight
Another day another night,
And though the reasons
Be unknown, they'll come like seasons,
Once again; though I know not when,
But by then, I hope I'll have a pen...
© okpoet

She left me
At the best possible time
In the worst possible way,
About to take another step
Smile on my face
Hope in my heart,
Without a trace
Like snapped apart,
Her scent lingering
No sign she meant
To wipe away her presence,
I'm faltering for a foothold
Shock frozen in mid air,
Unable to acknowledge
Even when I refused
To accept her existence,
Abrupt like a sudden
Splash of cold,
Awakened
Disheartened,
Breaths escaping me
In heaves stutters,
Not a scream will come
Not a word from my lips,
Not a soul will know
The pain seeping
Through my veins
A slow poison
Taking it all away;
Hope it's soon...
© okpoet

In the light of early dawn she sat;
As no sleep could bring peace to her,
Restless mind; littered thoughts of that;
Which haunted her every moment after,
From minute to minute her nightmares;
Were her living hell and there by her side,
He knelt; held her hand and ignored the stares;
Of those all around who couldn't understand,
How he couldn't leave her side; they couldn't stand;
To see this outspoken love he wouldn't hide,
Even though she was broken sitting there;
Unable to love him back; but he didn't care,
Because his love was for that memory he held;
Deep within his heart and the promise he upheld,
His vow to her from the moment they met;
That he would always never this feeling forget,
What she meant to him the light she brought;
Made him stand again and how for her love he fought,
Because she was that purpose he had been missing;
All his life, and though he slowly lost her to her demons,
Past, he never would abandon this flower no longer blooming;
For within her lost mind he knew she remembered him and,
So he'd be there to welcome her no matter;
What the cost no regretting the coming latter,
Even if the toll of time would his bones turn to sand...
© okpoet

The darker the sunshine
The brighter the abyss,
She is that flower
You can see
Just past
The fence
You can't cross,
She is the song
You can hear
Just past
The door
You can't open,
She is the breeze
You can feel
Just past
The open window
With the bars you can't escape,
She is the leftover batter
On the beaters
From that cake
You can smell
But you'll never eat,
As she escapes you
Nearly within reach
A mirage you know
Is just a sundown
Away from being real,
Because she is the love
You can almost taste
Past the words you write
About your devotion to her...
APAD13 - 063 © okpoet

My love
Skips to the beat of your heart,
My pulse
Surges to the palpitation of your eyes,
My eyelids
Flutter to the cadence of your hips,
My legs
Walk to the rhythm of your breathing,
My lungs
Respirate to the tempo of your steps,
My fingers
Tap to the metronome of your laughter,
My smile
Widens at the measure of your stride,
My feet
Pace to the song of your words,
My lips
Quiver to the cascade of your hair,
My mind
Churns to the flow of your spirit,
My soul
Ebbs at the ripple of your existence…
© okpoet

Will you please
Come with me;
Will you please
Follow me,
Stand here
And stay
Ever so still
My dear,
Under this overpass
While I cross it
To get over you?
The tears I've spilt
May be to you
Like water
Under this bridge,
But it's still flowing
And I can't change that
Unless I find a way
To forget
And move on
Though I may still carry
A torch,
I hope a new breeze
May come
From someone
Else's eyes aflutter
To blow out this flame
From whence it came...
APAD13 - 110 © okpoet

If my love
Falls on broken wings
That cannot fly,
Would it mean
My heart
Will never soar
And the stars
Will never
Graze my hands?
Would it be like
Grasping clouds
While falling through
Morning fog?
Shattered sentiments
Upon the ground
Devotion spilt
As blood on concrete,
Desires that lack
Pulse and mesh
And dreams that will never
Become as real
As the warmth of your flesh...
APAD13 022 - © okpoet

Sitting here
Deftly stroking keys,
Thoughts envelop
My mind of ideas,
Intricate plans
That no one sees,
But above all,
In them I see us,
Fate has not to meddle in this,
My path I have chosen to follow,
Working hard
I can reach bliss,
Stepping firmly
Not looking below,
As I walk high above obstacles,
But as long as you are by my side,
Forward on to the highest pinnacles,
I will strive on with pride,
Until I reach
My unwavering goal,
All the while you and I can be,
Inseparable in mind and soul,
Let it not be purportedly...
© okpoet

My love
Is turtle
From my heart
To yours,
Your judgement
Is rabbit
From your eyes
To my face,
Clouded
Fogged
Shrouded,
And I can't
Shell out
The clarity
Any faster
Before your
Dumb lucky foot
Will trip you up
Choked
Won't you pause
Let me catch up
And touch you
Slowly but surely
Bring you round
And sit by me,
Glad you lost the race
Before I ambled out
Of your life forever
And you would have been
Left in your hole of regret...
APAD13 018 - © okpoet

You should
Trademark
The click
Of your heels;
How they step
Into the chamber
Of my mind
Through my ears
Up my spine,
The way you walk
Is like,
Tick - tock; tick - tock
On a whole
Different rhythm of time,
A pendulum of motion
The sultriest of metronome
That instills the notion
Your hips could sway armies;
Drown out like the lull of the ocean
All and any commotion
Most intoxicating sight,
In every stride
Subliminally demanding
My utmost devotion?
For you; yes I can
Be most addicted,
For in every click
All I hear
Is the ***;
And the why...
APAD13 - 091 © okpoet

Imaging turning to
A face that smiles
When they see you,
Acknowledges
Your presence
And lives for you,
Ears for your
Every word,
Eyes for your
Every movement,
Heart for your
Every living breath,
Imagine that!
Next to you
At every step;
Unconditional
Unwavering
Loyal and devoted,
Imagine that
Welcome embrace
Every day
Knowing you're
Never one word
One call; one touch
Away from a kindred
Soul born just for you;
Never alone again,
Imagine that...
© okpoet

I've got to get her out of my brain
But how do you stay dry naked in pouring rain;
Can't go a minute without a thought of her
Can't make it even if I've gotten this far as it were
She's got doubts about me
She won't trust me with her key;
Won't give me a chance to clear myself
She's just putting me high on a shelf,
Would she even think of me again?
I can't imagine how long until then;
That I can speak to her once more,
Like in my face she slammed a door;
I'm sad; depressed and distressed,
The turmoil is killing me who would have guessed,
That's she'd get to me this way;
I hope with my feelings she's not trying to play,
This is just torture
It can't end without closure;
I'm knee deep in needles and bottles,
But no drug or liquor can they my angst coddles,
I have no choice but to weather this storm;
Glad no one can see the tears in my eyes form...
©okpoet

I feel my pulse
Quicken steadily;
My fingertips
Perspiring readily,
The anticipation
In my every sense;
Of you coming near
My invisible fence,
Vulnerable to my emotions
It protects me;
But you tear it down
Flimsy no one can see,
I take you in through every pore;
Beauty to my eyes;
Your scent unnerves my core,
The very thought of you
Like an illusion;
Every curl of your hair;
Every curve like a mission,
You wield this control
Unlike any king or power;
If only I could wait
For your command but I cower,
As you touch me
Shivers run through my soul;
What I wouldn't do
But for one kiss no bell would toll,
Your parting lips
To my sight a rose in bloom;
Supple skin and flesh
I wish to hold
Take in my doom,
For; you break my self-control
To give in to this;
What may it be called?
My forbidden bliss...
© okpoet

It beckons from the depths;
A rage simmering,
Brought on by defiance;
Who shall run this life?
No one but ourselves;
We don't have the heart,
For petty games;
No mercy for the wicked,
The purest of mind;
The simplest of soul,
Harbor the darkest;
Side of evil,
For we know who we are;
Not your stepping stone,
Nor your passing fancy;
We give of ourselves,
For the greater good;
Not to be taken lightly,
Because once you've had your fill;
We come for your reckoning,
Have you paid your dues?
We will spare you no torture...
© okpoet

Do I miss you
Because
You're far?
Do I miss you
Because
It's been awhile?
Why do I miss
What do I miss
What what oh what
Is amiss?
Is it the absence
Of you?
The distance
Of you?
Am I night
Missing the moon
The twinkling of stars
All the strangers around me
Not bright enough
To lure me out of the dark
Corners that I hide; that I lurk in?
Or am I grass
Missing the sun
The warmth
The fiery burn
Motionless too long
Without a light breeze?
Or am I the shore
Still feeling
The splash
Of your farewell
Long after
You've waved
Goodbye?
APAD13 - 093 © okpoet

I used to carry
An empty glass,
Never would I admit
And kept hidden,
With a smile on my face
I masqueraded,
When she came around
Pitcher in hand,
Without thinking
I held my glass out,
She spilled a few drops
And my eyes lit up
I thirsted but I refrained,
She started to pour
Glass half full,
I took a sip
Then I drank
Timidly at first
But then I drenched
My palate,
This was unlike
Anything I've ever had,
My cup overflowed
And I a fool
Thought it would
Never run dry,
But here I am now
My glass shattered
I am empty again,
Thirst come heavy
With want,
If I had a taste
Once more,
I would cherish
Every measure
But no other liquid
Will ever appease,
This drought
In my soul,
Barren
Desert
In my heart,
I will forever yearn
But for a few more drops from her...
© okpoet

I trailed a walk
And sat upon a bench,
A stranger sits next to me
And whispers
'You've got to let her know'
Watching me closely
Her eyes prodding
Inquisitive and alert,
I'm taken aback
Confused
I wonder what she knows;
'You've really got to let her know!'
She says louder,
Enthusiastic
And I stand
Commence to gap
A distance between us
I'm not sure what's going on,
'You really have got to let
This girl know you love her so much!'
She just shrieks,
And now I know
She's found my letters,
Like they've come to haunt me
Through this spectator,
How did she make out
The blurry ink
On crumpled paper?
Oh how I died each time
I wrote one,
Through the scotch and the tears
They came to be
Physical regrets of the words
I never said to her...
APAD13 004 - © okpoet