You ask me if I have a face
That can launch a thousand ships
I laugh at you and say
My eyes can only see one ship
My friend
And he is in my bay

My breath hung on the faintest touch,
loving deeply and unashamed.
I gave my soul's secrets to a heart glowing
with a desire to see the gentleness of life
through an obsidian whisper of glass.
A heart that savored heights of happiness
within vibrating rings issued from a sword's blade.

I deeply treasured my appointment within the circular maze of this love
while simultaneously reading the prints
that it left upon my soul.
They were the color my mind dreamed in,
wondrously prompting warm flames for me to fall into.

Phrases walked into places never been before, curving their fingers
around the notes that played the tune of my emotions,
then danced upon pure clouds of captivation.
Unknowingly they created a celestial answer
for these eyes filled with grief.

I am moved as I remember waiting for my skin to be touched
in places where alone had marked complaints
here and there upon my hours.
When ribbons of truth gave passage
my mouth unfolded in a smile that connected
passionately with your own.

Your heart it is broken, so broken in two
The hurt that you feel is immense
But guarding your heart by withholding your love
Just does not make any sense

Your heart like an instrument needs to be tuned
And its strings they need replaced
Polished and cleaned and buffed to a shine
A heart broken can have a new face

Don't stop playing your music you just hit a wrong note
Tune, restring, polish and clean
Take up your heart and try once again
And soon you will see what I mean

It tears the heart from me
Each time I hear you speak her name
As long as I don't hear it pass your lips
I can forget that she exists
And everything is still the same

It kills me inside to know
That she sleeps by your side each night
And that her every morning is met by you
When I should be the one sharing your dreams
And waking up with you

Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself
Live through you and not for me
But this love I have inside of me for you
Will not let me set myself free

I can't even stand the thought
Of not having you in my life in some way
So even though it breaks my heart
Here in love with you I stay

Open my eyes that I may see
The truth in your word
And believe

Comfort my soul with your breeze
Take my hand
And walk with me

Be by my side forevermore
Show me the path
To your door

Soften my heart and let me feel
See what is true
And is real

Show me the way the truth the light
Always protect me
With your might

Time it passes
oh so fast.
Life is at full speed.
Yesterday I was a child
with few cares and needs.

Our youth and beauty is but brief,
gone in the blink of an eye,
swirling downward like sand
in the hourglass of time.

We must live and laugh and love
not forget to dance,
seek by what we are most blessed.
Not give discontentment
even a second glance.

The sands of time in my life
will run their course one day.
But this I pray with all my heart
I will not forget
to live and laugh and love,
and always smile and dance,
all along the way.

When I talk to you late at night
When we both should be fast asleep
These are the sweetest conversations
I have ever known

This is when I feel the closest to you
And I can feel your love
More than any other time

It doesn't matter what we talk about
Or how many times we change the subject
And go right back again
We just flow.

It seems you almost read my mind
And I feel sometimes I almost read yours too
When we say the same things at the same time
I realize how much I am in tune with you

Even though I may be so tired the next day
That I can hardly stay awake
I wouldn't give up this time we spend together
For anything in the world.

I just wanted you to know how special
This time spent with you is to me
And I can only hope that it means
As much to you

So riddled with pain and despair
Giving up on all you desire
Abandoning dreams you hold deep inside
You’ve lost the spark to your fire

What made you smile long ago
You have laid aside
All of those dreams you aspired to reach
You've buried them deep inside

They can be found once again
Look deep inside it’s true
All of the dreams you once had
Are still inside of you

Pick up your pen and your brushes again
Your instruments and your voice
Write, paint, play and sing
Create and rejoice

When you've drawn a line in the sand
As a point of no return
Do not ever cross this line
Unless you think you'll like the burn

There's obsession deep in this dance
Moving back and forth
Taking blows from every side
From an unseen force

The mind cries out to get a grip
But the heart is in command
Losing ground with every step
As it makes demands

What you will and what you won't
They are not the same
As what you do and what you don't
When it calls your name

You back it up and take it down
Find you're in a bind
As you go forth and give it all
When your heart can't find its mind

A pulse could hush the feel of skin
as it runs peaceful, always on the move.
There is an inside outside
need to breathe,
frequent release,
from all that’s smooth.

There is one in every shade,
wafting through dreams of joy and fear, not taken.
In a playground where you can’t see,
how the eyes of truth
exhale a sacredness,
unshaken.

Serenity weeps
as it looks upon the waves
that pull you in without chains.
While an echo finds contentment
on the lips of imagination,
gone insane.

On the beaches of your mind
you have wings,
playing the lead role of a play.
Would I known the wars-a-waging there,
I wouldn’t have fed passion,
a single day.

Chains quiver under the tongue of flames then lie dead to you
So how can they still sing to me until I cannot forget?
That the grip of time will never end
And even if I go away my lips will smile
With blinded eyes

A shell of seclusion asks at last if I miss those possibilities
Of your constant sifting through my soul and mind
Until hope is no longer a dream
And your flames breathe upon the petals
Chained in ecstasy

The gifts I wish away are still mine to have and know
Held by a single hand with no magical wand
Yet I seem to view the dawn
As a strange rain that brings me gloom
Chained to here and gone

If chains quiver under the tongue of flames then lie dead to you
What is this voice I carry inside my heart to remain?
When all it seems merely waits for me
To release my tears and sweetly smile again
Blinded to the chains

The music written by the hand of love
Never fades away
The love I hold inside for you
It will always stay

My love for you is stronger now
Than it ever was
Our song still plays inside my heart
Like a symphony from above

I hold you close with this song
Inside this heart of mine
And my heart will always sing with yours
My love you’ll always find

True love will never fade away
Though it’s song we can’t always hear
But it’s still playing right along
Inside our hearts so near

I went looking for something different,
maybe embedded in the rooms
of other worlds.
Possibly feelings
contained in oceans,
drunk
from singing
romantic melodies.  

I found skies running backward
and started asking myself
too many questions
about just how
I should be.
Then across my face
ran my inner child
and solved the mystery.

Under my feet, I stepped on syllables
I had charmed
into becoming a song
of the morning.
Just to watch them staring back
into the sea of my soul
on pages requiring nothing
from me.

I went looking for something different,
entranced
in complete curiosity.
What I found was a flower
unwinding each petal
into the light
of day.

Embedded in the rooms of other worlds
there are winds
that imprint pleasure in shades
that cry out to the ego
in sudden breaths
and feelings
contained in oceans
burning brighter
than anything I have
ever said.

A tear fell on a page of random thoughts whispering to me
Fascinating songs in harmony made me their slave
I took the best of all that my eyes could see
Then watched the sunset burn
What I could not save

I plucked a crimson rose and changed its shade to blue
To flood my soul with words deeply sweet
Oh, how my heart leaped at each queue
Telling me, I had accomplished
My feat

I reached for  those stars shining brilliantly up above
Turning away from every smile, I met
Watched the weeds take over my garden of love
As tending to each flower
I did forget

Little pools now form on every page of random thoughts
Each line has slowly faded from my view
Those brilliant stars that I sought
Almost made me forget
My love for you

I now listen to the harmony of the songs that softly play
While holding to the best, which is thee
I smile back at every single face, met along my way
Swiftly removing every ****
From my garden
I can see

I feel you slowly burning into me
I always know you're there
As if you were right here with me
Your face within my hair

I feel your breath upon my face
I see your eyes of blue
Hear your whispered words of love
As if I'm next to you

I feel your warmth against my skin
Your scent it drifts to me
Whispered kisses raining down
From lips that I can't see

I close my eyes drift off to sleep
I'm awakened by your touch
I reach out and you're not there
But I still feel your love

Some reach out for what they seek
Caring not if it is their own
They pluck it from the place it rests
Try and change its song

They try to bend it to their will
Change its form to fit their needs
Possession is their only goal
The danger they don't see

The spirit of the softest heart
Has thorns that one can't see
A vain attempt to take what is
Not your own
Will only make you bleed

Between two worlds unknown
I walk without fear
Ever searching for what's true
The wisdom of the years

The steps I take are true and steady
My heart is proud and strong
As I come and go between the two
Fighting every wrong

Seeking justice is my purpose
Yet revenge is not my own
The reaping will be had
By the seeds that you have sown

If you are living by the sword
You'll be dying by the same
You best be sowing something different
Or you'll lose at your own game

I go through each day with you
Like I am walking on a wire
Myself I put aside
To meet what you require

These eggshells you have in front of me
Strewn about on this path
I walk around and attempt not to crush
As I carefully avoid your wrath

You have placed a muzzle on my mind
And I am afraid to speak what is there
So I never say what I really mean
And I know that you don't care

This Mona Lisa smile here on my face
I put there to appear serene
When inside I feel that I am losing it
Because I can't say or show to you
How I really feel or what I mean

I reached up and caught the moon
And took it home with me
Placed it in my pocket and walked away
Thought no change it would bring

I felt so proud to have obtained
Such a lovely jewel
Absolutely free at no cost to me
But I was such a fool

When I ran off with the moon
I broke the heart of the sea
As the tides no longer knew what to do
And didn't want to be

The Earth cried as it began to be pulled
Way too close to the Sun
So much chaos began to reign
I had no idea what I'd done

The stars all went out one by one
They no longer wanted to shine
Without the face of their beautiful friend
Who smiled on them oh so kind

So I took the moon back and placed it high
Where it's supposed to be
Such confusion I created by taking
What doesn't belong to me

Shut it down and turn it around
Don’t turn the page close the book
Open your eyes, run for the hills
Don’t give it a second look

Don’t even try to figure it out
It is what is I suppose
Some things are better left alone
This is one of those

When you reach where you’re at
Shut your eyes and breathe
Open them up and see the world
You are finally free

The night is dark the moon is high
A whispering wind is blowing by
A nightingale sings her tune
As I wish upon the moon

A shooting star falls to the Earth
A cricket chirps in merry mirth
A silence falls on everything
I hear the brush of angels wings

A song bursts forth across the sky
Such beauty comes from way up high
On bended knees we all fall down
And press our faces to the ground

We all look up in glorious awe
At the sight before us all

If you saw yourself through my eyes
And saw what I can see
You would see the same
The same as who you are and all that you can be

If you saw yourself through my eyes
Your eyes would open up
And realize you are much more than you know

I see you with my heart
And I see what you see in yourself
I see who you are and what you strive to be
If you could see yourself through my eyes
You would see
What a beautiful soul
I see

You ask if as a child
I had dreams
Things that I aspired to do
Such a question brings much to mind
And I will share with you

When I was young I wished to fly
Like an eagle soar
I wanted to grow up so fast
And be a child no more

In the dark of night
I looked up
At the starry sky
And wished and wished upon each one
That time would fly right by

In my youth I yearned to live
Completely on my own
To answer to no one but me
And be left alone

Now that I am grown
And I can see
How quickly youth does pass
If I could do it all again
I would dream that youth would last

This too shall pass they said.
I did not believe a word.
The rain continued to fall on me
all direction, seemed to be blurred.

Each and every day was a fight
Just to have the get up and go.
The will to continue to battle at all
If I still had, I just didn't know.

Then something so profound
was shared with me,
and oh, how it opened my eyes.
A friend told me I would find my smile again,
I found my friend to be wise.

I did find my smile again
direction once again became clear.
I found the strength to battle right on
And the will to release all my fears.

My shield and sword I keep with me
By my side each day
Ever ready to face what comes
To meet me on my way

A band of warriors by my side
With the greatest care
Fighting unseen foes on all planes
By lifting up their prayers

Iniquity comes and it will aim
To break a heart that's true
But a warrior on the righteous path
Will its wickedness run through

I place the key to my heart
In the palm of your strong hand
With an innocent trust
To use at your wish and command

I trust that you will enter with care
As if my heart were your own
Treasuring the contents
And exploring the unknown

I am counting on you to handle with care
Everything fragile you find
Leave nothing broken when you close the door
Just leave your heart behind

My Heart, I think of you when night breathes on me
Until the voice of dew falls on the early morn
Like a simmering fire my heart decrees
That I must always think of you
With each new sunrise born

A fantasy is kindled, lighting each new thought afire
My lips cannot help but speak your name
Demanding that my heart acquire
All these thoughts of you
To feed the flame

A river of blue moves within me, as divine inspiration
Coloring each of these thoughts I have of you
As blue as the eyes of my fascination
Times like these  
Fans the flame anew

My Heart, I think of you when morning calls my name
Until my night breathes on me once again
Tell me does your heart feel the flame
In times like these
Do you think of me the same

The game of Hearts one may play
Thinking they will win
Yet all the cards they throw down
Stand back up again

The cards they shift round and round
All about the table
Winner takes all you hear said
The players they enable

The lowest card could never win
One would have to think
So they smile and throw one down
Never even blink

This game of Hearts is not one
That makes a bit of sense
As you find what you threw down
Was your best defense

What you may think to be the least
Is worth more than the rest
The game of Hearts you will lose
As often it’s the best

If tomorrow never comes to us
and yesterday never did;
would today still be ours to have
hold and to live?

If we could look back in time
but our past we couldn't see;
would our days not exist as now
would we still be?

If the sun did not set today
but it rose again tomorrow,
could we forget about yesterday
and all of its sorrow?