Women

We toss and turn
as our innards yearn
for those quicksilver
flashes of life.

Without them we'd burn
from bow 'til our stearn
for those so-tender
sources of strife.

Yet we are muddled
by those that we've cuddled
spun round and a-
round like a top.

Our minds they all fuddle
with hints far to subtle
'til at last from
anger they pop.

Yet still...

We toss and turn
as our innards yearn
for those quicksilver
flashes of life.

Without them we'd burn
from bow 'til our stearn
for those so-tender
sources of strife.

To my Love

I look into your eyes,
and I'm entrapped.
I smell your hair,
and I'm ecstatic.
I touch your hand,
and I'm exhilarated.
I make you laugh,
and I'm elated.
I sooth your tears,
and I'm enraptured.
I hold you close,
and I'm whole.

Eulogy

They come and they go
Passing like the night
Enter, Grow, Leave
Are forgotten
How much they change
Things, Lives, Themselves.
Change the world,
then disappear
leaving nothing but faint footprints
that fast fade away.
We work so hard,
do so much,
but what happens to us
when we are forgotten?

Every Hello an "I love you"

I see you every day
Though so much time has passed.
You're so far away,
But the memories still last.
I need your smiling face,
That little hand to grasp
To hold you in my arms
And just let the hours pass.

I give
With every hello an “I love you”,
Every goodbye a kiss.
In each and every moment,
It’s you, it's you I miss.

I used to make you smile.
We’d laugh and dance and sing,
But now those happy moments
Are nothing more than dreams.
I want to say I love you.
I want more than just a fling.
I want to clothe that little finger
With a pretty diamond ring.

I give
With every hello an “I love you”,
Every goodbye a kiss.
In each and every moment,
It’s you, it's you I miss.

I wish it wasn’t over,
I want more of those happy days
I feel cold alone and helpless
Without you I’ve lost my way.
I see your crying eyes.
I want to wipe those tears away.
So why don’t you scoot a bit closer
‘cause I’ve got something to say

I give
With every hello an “I love you”,
Every goodbye a kiss.
In each and every moment,
It’s you, it's you I miss.

Empty

Happiness is Darkness
the light is gone out
I, an empty shell,
go about life
eat, breath, wander
without purpose.
How can I live
without my heart?

I do not understand
why two men can embrace each other on a mat, but can’t touch anywhere else.
why putting a ball through a ring can make or break someone’s day.
why men are praised for carrying a ball across a line while they smash others.

But most of all I do not understand
why those who don’t see the sense in this
are ridiculed, tormented,
humiliated, and insulted
just because they don’t want to follow the mindless masses.

What I understand most is acting
Losing myself in a character
Playing with the heartstrings of an audience,
Drawing them in,
Making them become one with me,
And loving me for it.

Why?
Why can we be
so stupid,
When we should be
wise?

Why?
Why do we succumb
to greed and avarice
When it stands against
Logic and Reason?

Why?
Why does that
Filthy Lucre
have such great hold
upon our hearts?

Why?
Why con we not
follow reason, wisdom,
when faced with temptations of
Money and Power?