So alive

Fresher are you than any flower
richer than corn silk is your hair
loving you is more than I can bear
your smile, your eyes, your all male power
leaves me breathless, where can I go
my face flushing, my eyes dart here and there
looking for refuge,you look right through me, I swear
your smile I drown in, I cannot utter no
day after day you are in each thought
is this love? I cannot bear much more
to feel this much seems a shameless sin
I'm intoxicated with the joy you have brought
to each minute, each hour, each day, that before
once closed, but you are not like other men,
you make me feel so alive, in love again.

04041980

Empty Darkness

Come share my night, share my love
greedily drown and wash ashore
feel each ebb and tide shove
and lie at the edge, the waters pour
let's share our warmth upon the sand
come and lay your nakedness near
entwine yourself in my outstretched hand
and say the worlds I want to hear
but would you go out in a night so black
and leave the comfort of your bed
to save this lost soul, and bring her back
and breathe life into a soul so dead
don't leave me alone tonight to face
the empty darkness in this loveless place

01241980

Once my yesterdays

The days of creation
left behind are they
no new memories
and more fade away
a void of meditation
once my yesterdays

12380415

Mr. Wrong

When all my walls
came crumbling in
you made me feel beautiful
when I felt like
a ship in dry dock
you shared the sunset...
you brought out the stars
for me to count
and left them like diamonds
in my hand
you gave me rainbows
when all my days
were like grey clouds
you shared my summer shower
and taught me to smile, again
you made me feel
so love, and wanted
too bad you forgot
to tell me you were married

08251980

Tangled

Tangled in thought
a web of yesterdays
indistinct, frozen
slowing breaking away
the past just naught
with memory erosion

12120415

Living Hell

This is not life, this is a living hell
more pain than anyone should bear
we walk among the dead, no one to care
if one more starves and another fell
we know the torments of the devil very well
no one to stop the pain, no one to mourn
in blindness we walk, our souls torn
to cry out against the spell
that makes them treat us less than human, it's not fair
what's to be gotten, what fortune will they gain
to make us bear what is impossible to bear
our tortured souls wreathing in pain
surely this time is unreal, or am I insane
I walk into the shower room where
breath deep
death comes
blank stare

01111980

To leave a mark

I do not want to be just a shadow
but the sun the shines before it
I do not want to just like something
but to love and to adore it
I do not want to follow a dream
but let it build inside me
to always have faith the lord
is beside and He will guide me
I do not want to have just been
but to leave a mark on life
to be my own unique person
in this world filled with strife
let me grow and let me be
much better everyday
and let me touch the souls of those
who pass me on life's way

09211979