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Tom Lengel Jan 2016
this coffee stain is the leftover
of an accident

perhaps
of the moment
i fell in love
with a girl i didn't know

and not
the coffee i spilled
standing up
to tell her i love her
Tom Lengel Aug 2015
sun
wake up, my dear friend,
lift your eyes to the sun,
because i know you've been sleeping
in heartbreak.

i'll tell you, my dear friend,
that the kisses you want,
and the heart that you need,
hide right behind the shades
of your darkened room.

i promise, my dear friend,
darkness does you no good,
for who, in the dark, will you see,
but not, in the warmth of the sun?

how can you say, my dear old friend,
"all i love is now gone"?
        rip down your shades!
        right there in the sky!
my friend, he sees what you see!
it's the dear old sun.

so much can travel, i'll tell you right now,
in the raging, sweltering, heat of the sun,
these rays are not weak, no, they'll reach you indeed,
for this weather was sent with love,
by the man that you need.

what distance do you speak of*, my friend,
how can you still cry,
if the man you think gone,
is right outside?
Tom Lengel Jun 2015
you my firefly,
sit perched on my
left finger.

why have you brought
with you the stars
to this humble earth?

you have the whole
sky for your luminous soul and yet
you rest your wings on me.

here you grace me, firefly,
to bring me the heavens.

light up my
heart,
and brighten the path
I follow.
a prayer
Tom Lengel Jun 2015
will you lend me
your hands
for when i
am weak

soft
and silent
as those of
angels
?

just for this moment,
just for this moment,
let me weep into
your
hands
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