Electrified

Your hands
cause short circuits
in all my nerve endings
leaving me electrified
with your presence
even when you're gone
all of me
is a memory bank
of feeling.... for you

06231981

Too many

There are too many
to list the dead
beyond forgetting
they fill my head
soul suffering
holocaust's dread

05151979

Deadfall

Sucklings ripped from the breast
human slaughter
see them die
all crushed in little heads
filled with milk
mothers cry

Tiny arms wrapped round a leg
vacant eyes
stomach bloated
feel the hunger
see the suffering
another number has been noted

Line up the guns
and mow them down
see the bodies fall
no reason to whats been done here
mental illness
bitter gall

Man's capacity of inhumanity
left this darkened deadfall
corpses of those torture chambers
left to walk
memories endless hall

05131979

There will come the time

Strange how my heart not at all prone
to love again.... is beating loud
and I find I miss you, when alone
or maybe more.... in a crowd
I have no peace at all, bewildered heart
you pound too loudly within my breast
ravishing me and tearing my soul apart
love is not the best place to rest
and struggling to breathe in air
something I once did naturally
I find you brought me to terms
and made me care
are more shamefully
within my heart I know
I really would not
want to let you go

01241981

Waiting for wings

Fading thoughts
have no voice
sitting expressionless
left to drift
as I sit
waiting for wings
so that I can fly

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If not now

The hour has not come, not yet
when you shall lie in bed with me,
and let the blood roar, and shackles get
about the self who once was free
if not tonight, then later, if not now
then yet, you will bring me to delight
to your fine touch and teach me how
to know you well in the darkness of night
and raise the heat of passion, be assured,
that I will desire you, and yet
though I will love shameless in night obscured
I may regret the day we met
for love no friend, she ties you down
and leaves your heart upon the ground

01241981

Heavy Burdens

Some days
it's prayer
that gets me
through the day
sustained
in faith
when nothing
else will do
my heavy
burdens
carried by angels
lovingly

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