Loud like lovers kisses stills streets
Like the flare of trumpets
But when lips and goodbyes meet

Love silently yearns
Waiting for love to return

The crash of glass and china on walls
As curses crush and claims confront
With every word on  ear and hall

Love is silent
Longing for love to be silent

When the living wail aloud
Midst those in night's garment
Among the tombstones in life's shroud

Love is silent and keeps
Knowing love is asleep

When the gavel condemns vice
And loved deserves the punishment
Love steps forward to sacrifice

Love silently
Dies willingly

When love is silent.
Love is never unheard.

You made my dad a grand father
But he doesn't mind
You've been the son at the back of his mind

You made my ma a grandma
And made her heart glow
Funny she's never loved something that made her feel old

You made my malla and me uncles
It feels kind of cool
To think now after being spoiled we'll be spoiling you.

You made Akki a mom
Or you made it official
I don't think she's been anything less than maternal.

You've made James a dad
And a fine one at that
Time will prove that i'm right and of that I'm glad.

Welcome to the family!
We were born into it too
It's wierd at first but it grows on you.

And we will do our best
To make you feel one
Friend and a loved nephew son and grandson.

Hello lonely eyes
Looking through the lies
Bright as the summer shine
She's easy on the eyes

We're in churches in chains
Singing of a love that's blind
Her chains are chained to mine
She's easy on my mind

Oh lonely eyes
If only our love were blind
She teases me with goodbye
But she's easy on the eyes

We swim in the rain
In the river we find
When we're drowning in pain
She's easy on my mind

Oh lonely eyes
Reflected in your eyes
And you're reflected in mine
You're easy on the eyes
You're easy on the mind
You're easy on the eyes
You're easy on the mind

When I say I love you
I mean like a friend
When you say I love you
It means without end

You mean it like a father
Loves His child
I mean it like a feather
Loves the sky

When you say I would do all
I mean in the figurative
But you're more literal
Your life you would give

Turn heaven upside down to get to earth
Turn earth right side up to get me to heaven
Turn your life to death to give me worth
Turn death to life to make us one

And you called me son
Not servant
Not one of the hundreds to come
Not pilgrim vagrant

You called me son
You say I'm free
You say eternity
Literally

And you're not being figurative
You're not playing with hyperbole
You're not using superlatives
You're just being wholly

True
When you say I died for you

Your words cut like scalpels
Through hair skull and scalp
Culling the cunning thoughts
My Foolish heart has bought

But your blade is truth
No anesthetic
Can dull, numb or soothe
Unsympathetic

It removes the lie
Like a tumor
Until my life's
A rumor

There between my mirror and me
Is a darkness, a dislike
Between the same and opposite I see
Is a sense of spite in-spite of me

I'll close my eyes
And try to see
The humor in a raspberry
But I still see what I can't see
Who I am
Is not who I'm meant to be

I swear
If you lose my heart
I will tear your room apart
Until It's found
And if it's not around
I will split with yours
And hide it because

We'll both be lost hearts then
Following the one who lost them