Want

I want you to love me
with all of your soul
Hold me close to you
until we grow old
Touch me and taste me
just like the first time
Lay here beside me
until we run out of rhymes...
Then begin with new words
from my lips to your ears
Kiss sealed promises
of cherished future years
I want to love you
for the rest of your life;
Best friend and lover,
mother and wife

One and Only

Take me into your arms
touch me tenderly,
just enough to tease me
tweak my virgin strings
Slowly, softly finger me
until our rhythm bursts
Faster, make me scream
your pain repeated verse
This love you have for me
I will not let you down
We’ll conquer all who see
our desires tightly bound
One body and soul on stage
where the deafening lights are loud
Or in a dark, private place
and we both know how
to bring our music
to the ultimate high:
a two way blinding ecstasy
where passion freezes time
Nothing can replace us
I know who you are
Playing out my fantasy
with my one and only
guitar

Stolen

Your thoughts and mine
like oceans divided by lines
and spaces between dreams
Let love intertwine
itself around hope
and silently dance
upon fate's envious chance;
Mend the jagged seams
of damaged hearts and minds
until we can redeem
the stolen gift of time

Justification of a Half-Truth

You can share it with the world
your justified hate
pray the pseudo rosary
pretend to meditate
But see how you forget
when cursing out my name
to admit that you have yet
to accept some of the blame
You can purify your soul
scrawls of painful, angry verse
undermine the foolish fool
revalue your self-worth
But look me in the eye
with brutal honesty
remember I left you
after you walked out on me
Run, go write your heart out
accuse me of grave faults
Bury all of your secrets
in half-filled vaults
Battle ghosts and demons
proclaiming you were wronged
But I dare you to listen
to the real tune of our broken song
The lies you told me were small and few
but they kept me from knowing
and being with you
Not uncontrolled circumstances
or locks on people's gates
Just loss of total trust
and break of endless faith
I did my part for years
with patient heed
Faced all of my fears
and I did bleed...
So when you lament
of Beauty's love that failed
give half credit to the heart
that you knowingly impaled

Zombie Soup

Shattered heart around my mind
fuels no chance for sleep
like frustration flavored zombie soup
A sense of time patterened sickness
reminds me of the need
to appease this restricted hunger
Even leftover stale bread crumbs
will eventually soak up
the insomnia colored
amniotic tidal waves

Amtrak

It wasn't the soft morning high
of the bleary-eyed lullabye
sung by the bird's perfect tunes
Or the rude awakening lurch
forward facing train's strict march
that allowed me to break in front of you
It was the sadness of your sigh
the misty handprinted goodbye
on the window that I just couldn't see
And it was the way my heart fell
onto the second and third rail
crying "take my life now ---
so that you can breathe"

Dedication

Throw blood crusted confetti

thread your old, rusted machete

through the middle of his

broken heart

It's the anti-celebration

of blackened jubilation

dedicated to the day

you ripped his world apart