It's 2:00 AM,
as she sips her
Pepsi, that she hates,
and calmly explains
why nothing makes sense
and everything is perfect.
She is the epitome of
cool and unfashionable,
A plain nobody,
destined for fame and beauty.
The strongest women you'll meet,
and more frail than any rose.
She can talk for hours,
but not start a conversation
She's an angel-in-disguise,
something evil lingering
A bag of bones,
but plump and round.
She's someone you'll
never understand.
As she opens another Pepsi,
and asks for the time.
3:25 AM now,
and she pulls out
a piece of paper
and writes her name
next to his,
and the boy sleeping
on the floor rolls over
The girl in the arm chair
goes to her room.
Leaving him and her alone,
as he touches her hair,
and whispers her name,
and kisses her for
the first time.
And she wants him,
and he'll never be right for her,
but she'll never learn,
for a while.

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Sometimes your intial feeling is best
and sometimes it takes time to find out
But I know my dreams are real
and I'll find a love that's true.
Build a love on a solid friendship
And it'll last forever-
To prove the cynics wrong and the dreamers right
But most of all to have someone
by your side, holding you, kissing you,
keeping you warm in bed at night.
Someone to pick you up
But whether it is love at first sight,
or a friendship turned to love
You'll have someone someday
And that person will come along
When you least expect.
So you just have to remember to
expect the unexpected.
 

The belief of you comes from deep inside me.
So, we share a heart and soul
Once two halves now made whole
Wonderfully said,
not easily understood,
not to anyone outside of love.
I want to believe all the things I dream are true.
And I know you can fulfil my fantasies.
Dreams won't be fulfilled until a later date,
and they come with an expiry date.
You are here and now,
real to the senses and to my heart.
Things are only true if you believe in them,
so it is true with love and hope.
You only get out what you put in-
so it is true with magic and relationships.
Life built on dreams is not stable to last forever.
Love built on friendship, often stands the test of time.
I know with you by my side, holding me tight
I can survive the strongest hurricane,
that blows through my life.
So, please I ask you now on this cold, harsh night-
both outside my house and inside my heart,
stay the night.
Keep me warm and safe in your arms
and wake me with light kisses.
I believe in you and how you are here.
You are part of my heart and soul
We were once two halves,
lost and alone,
now we're whole.

How can the sound,
of a voice
make a heart
beat faster?
How can just
one look
make a heart
skip a beat?
How can an
accidental tough
make a heart
flip-flop?
How can one
person
make another
so happy?
How can one
person
give her heart
away so easily?
How can the sight
of one small smile
turn one's
day around?
How can one
small glance
tie a stomach
into knots?
How can the thought
of another
put a smile
across a face?
How can days
spent alone
be lonely
but happy?
How can one moment
turn pain
into happiness?
How can a
silly action
seem so absurd
but so endearing?
How can a
short conversation
touch a heart
so gently?
How can one
person turn
a life from
sad to happy?

It doesn't seem possible
the cynics will say it's not
but lovers know it,
and dreamers believe in it
the lucky have experienced it
the answer,
to all of the above,
and to our problems
is love.
 

I know I'm falling for you,
I recognize the unmistakable signs.
But I wonder exactly how you feel
about me.
Do you really love me?
I'm afraid of you because
I've been hurt so many times before-
I don't want to risk my heart again.
I try to keep my heart locked away,
but I can't do it every time-
slowly little by little
you are gaining everything
from me.
I don't claim to understand
what love really is,
but I know what it feels like.
With every word from you
I give a little piece of me-
in return;
And as I do, I wanted to tell you
be gentle with my heart-
it's very fragile,
and be patient with my soul.

You

You make me forget
everything I knew- thought
about my life-
about love.
I’ve never been this happy,
not for a long, long time-
you always cheer me up-
always make me smile.
Across the distance I feel
the touch of your hand,
your lips, your skin.
I’ve never wanted
someone this much- so much.
You make me feel alive
and most of all
you make me feel loved.

You spoke aloud,
words that I’d never
heard just that way.
I could hear the passion
you had inside of you.
Strong, raw emotions,
just beneath the surface
ready to show themselves
if provoked.
I can feel them
in your words,
I can see them
in you eyes.
A far cry from
myself,
my hidden emotions.
But we are
the same, you know
both feeling strong emotions
just different
ways of showing
our souls.

To Jack, for things I see inside of you.

I was thinking
about you and me
and I’m wondering where
we are going.
Two years passed so fast,
and I realized tonight
I want to live with you
and share you bed
and be there to eat breakfast
and I want to make love to  you
twice a day,
and I want to have your children
and raise them
and grow old with you
always finding new ways
to fall in love with you.

You speak
with so much
poetry and grace
it scares me
and I don't know
what to say
and I look into
your deep brown eyes
and once again
I'm
melting.

What's time when you have trust?
What's love when you have lust?
How do you survive in a material world?
How do you be natural in synthetic times?
Why do you run from what you want?
Why does life make sense to those who make it?
Who will be there when you run into trouble?
Who will be left when you disagree?
Where will you end up at the end of time?
Where will you be living next week?
When will you find the answers?
When will you know anything for sure?

All the questions- who, what, when where, why and how,
But you have no answers.
You don't understand- don't see the light,
you can search the universe, waste a lifetime,
but you'll never find an explanation,
until your search yourself first.
The solutions to your problems, you will find
lie within your heart, soul and mind.

Even in the darkest times
there are lessons to be learned,
a bright side on the other side of the dark,
a contradiction to every doubt,
a happy ending to every story- somewhere,
if you'll only look hard enough,
if you can change your attitude,
you'll always win in the end.
And if you can look inside and around
you'll see all of life's little lessons.

 Eyes To My Soul

You looked into my eyes
But you saw beyond the color,
I felt you searching my soul
and finding my pain hidden there.
Your eyes they brightened
And I saw a promise in them-
A promise to take away my hurt
And a promise of love.
You told me my eyes revealed a lot
And asked of my pain.
I smiled and denied it,
but you insisted it was in my eyes.
You spoke of a great love I didn't give out
And how I often felt lonely
And of the happiness I felt,
The creative spirit within.
I laughed your ideas away,
Wanting to hide my eyes,
For their betrayal of myself
And you saw that too.
I expressed my wonder at
how you cold see it in my eyes
or was it just you.
You said I have very expressive eyes
and you'd never experienced this before
somehow we were perfect together
two halves put together to make a whole.
And you took my hand and looked into my eyes
something miraculous occurred- you spoke softly
making promises to ears my pain
and promises of love.

Senseless and Beautiful

The days of making love
by the fire
disappeared when she
walked into the rain.
And love he drew
on matchbox backs
were lost in society,
and no one
understood the tears
they cried.

She never explained
her actions
things that were
impure and dignified.
And he didn't listen
when they told him
life didn't make sense
and it breaks your heart,
and they knew
only hurt
and love for each other.

She touched his mind,
he touched her heart,
they found a love
that defied laws,
was beautiful
beyond words,
didn't make sense.
Something no one
would ever understand
expect those who had it
and know it.

Death By Love

I love you so much
Its killing me- softly, slowly.
Your hands wrap themselves
around my body, warming me.
You whirl your way into my heart
But I don't object,
I like having you around
even if it's killing me.
I guess I'll die happy-
if too much of a good thing
can kill you-
that is what will happen to me.
A long, peaceful death
 by
       love
for what you do to me.