Reflection

Everytime he sighs
it reflects the love
in your beautiful green eyes
And when he smiles
it erases the miles
of untraveled
uncertain roads
between us

Speechless

Have you ever
been so at a loss
for anything to say
that a mirrored blade
across the throat
would speak louder
and bleed longer
than words?
I feel that way today

Black Daffodil

I am a misplaced crippled shadow
fading in the dark;
Hope desperately resting
one one single daffodil
whose petals have turned black
and already begun to fall

Fatal

Ego-fed hypocrisy
turns to reprimand
with the fetal positioned breakdown
I hold in my hand
Like a premature mental bomb
without a solid plan
Waiting to explode into
your doubting heart
All you see is fatality
But I'm doing all that I can

As I tear your mended wounds apart

Misunderstood

Love came to me
innocent and smiles
so full of hope
but little wisdom
Safe in my dreams
faith like a child's
Love spoke too softy
I didn't listen
Love whispered
to my deafening soul
you will have great memories
But I realize now, as I grow old
he actually said
you will break from misery

Backwards

I wanted to be born
at another time
when Elizabeth Browning
was so moved by rhymes
from her lover's kiss
with her thoughts entwined
around their private bliss
This should have been mine

I wanted my eyes
to glance longingly
upon my pride's own match
mirrored in Mr. Darcy
Oh to feel that moment
when he declared his heart
no longer in torment
or fear that we would part

Dear Emma and John
two best friends for life:
one proposed as her husband
one promised as his wife

I wanted to be born
at another time
when I could be yours
and you could be mine

Sunset

How suddenly
in an instant
can words resurface between
my past, present and future hope
of every dying dream...
Will whispers, promises and a distant kiss
satisfy what you really need...
Wardrobed in particles of setting sunlight
along a darkened stream