Because you love me.
You have made me want to be,
a better person.

You should milk today.
Take it for all it is worth,
tomorrow begs you.

Which should I believe.
God decides who lives or dies.
Or it's in fate's hands.

I believe In love
and in a higher power
Don't believe in me.

My beloved one
Painted your face on the sun
Moon reflects in bronze.

I smell strange perfume.
Lipstick on your collared shirt.
I am left to fume.

Better days ahead
Troubles a second language
I'm not fluent in.

I sometimes wonder
Do birds ever get depressed,
as they fly so free?
They can't laugh at funny jokes.
Their kids fly away too soon.

If the birds could speak
They'd talk about life and times
How they're free to be

Son asks black widow
"Mom, how did my father die"?
Black widow just sighs.

I should know by now.
I cry, you walk out the door,
and I'm left to blame.

Childhood blinded me.
Innocent and unaware.
Of a world in flames.

Falling for you
Torn and vulnerable,
the reasons I'm blue.

How to beat the blues
Round them up with cattle ****,
let the beatings start.

Behind sunglasses,
your soul is incognito.
Your intentions blurred.

Photographs of me.
My reflection in mirrors.
Isn't what I see.

We've nothing to hide.
An open book to skim through.
We're a novel pair.
You're the bookmarked chapters.
Illustrated by loves hand.

Dust accumulates.
On my old and dog eared dreams.
Threadbare at the seams.

No more will I fight.
You have crossed a line with me.
Silence is my right.

Cant cry hard enough,
to purge all the memories.
Broken heart aside.

I cannot withstand
Another crack in my heart
It will break in two

Waited by the phone
When you stopped coming around
But no calls came through
A new number you've found
So I'll quietly slip back,
into my loneliness inside
I'll take with me your memory
And a broken heart I will hide.

You tell me goodbye.
While you're draped in broken hearts,
that will never die

When life goes awry.
It hurts much like a beating,
bruises deep inside.

We fuss and we fight
I then call you a bully
You fire back at me,
"You're being so immature,
using the word bully".

Calandar tells time.
but that is for the long term.
Hands of time are tied.

Then you never knew.
Just how much in love I was.
How my feelings grew.
You're a candle in the dark.
The sun when the day is new.

Too many hours spent
Fretting over seasons past
Change, the offender

I cannot save you.
From you or anyone else.
I can't jump through hoops.

Can't say I love you
Too afraid to say those words
Yet, they haunt my thoughts

A red cardinal.
Landed on my windowsill.
Sign of my dead kin?

Till the final hour.
I will love your precious heart.
Endings come with care.

Fall into a trap
When I say for you I care
You say that I don't
It goes on and on from there
Maybe you're right. I don't care.

Cats, a mystery.
Turn their noses up at food,
then they lick their butts.

What was I thinking.
Tried to reason with my cat.
She cat walked away.

Can't figure out
Is my cat plotting my death?
Or out of catnip

Cat spoke in his cries,
"Hey. Just so you know Karen.
I'm the one in charge"

I am not catty
You bring out the worst in me
My God the fur flew!

Words can be caustic.
Burning down into your soul.
Where the scar remains.

Love should always be.
A feeling that sets you free.
Yet I've chains on me.

I'm in a state of mind.
Let's get this party started.
I'm taking chances.

The streets have changed names
But the people are the same
Anywhere you go

You lost your values.
When you stopped valuing life.
Changing core beliefs.

We are different.
Does God celebrate that fact?
Does he embrace change?

We're playing a game.
Talk but don't communicate.
Charades without mime.

A skosh of allure,
will always do in a pinch,
when charms not handy.

If stars charm the night ,
the moon a bright guiding light,
our love must be right.

Cheetahs hit a bar
On the serengeti plains
Running up a tab.

It was a chess game.
I was once you're only queen.
You, knight on a steed.
You chased me around the board.
Only to make me your pawn.

Building blocks of life.
Taken down one at a time,
by childhood disease.