The shampoo fits more easily in the shower rack i notice
I watch as one valve drips to a stop, another will not stop for hours
My bedside table seems clean, seems different
Something’s missing….a book?
I can’t decide which way to lie….twisting and turning
In the unaccustomed silence after Sportscenter leaves the screen
Scorched eyes struggle to meet the morning as i get ready in front of an empty countertop
i sit silently in a cab towards the airport and soon, work approaches inexorably on the horizon.
Pretty blonde morphine seated next to me, would she take away the pain?
The head knows the heart can’t be healed, better to cut it out.
Wheels touch down and i don’t have to check the message that isn’t there, the one you didn’t leave.
My lonely, dimly lit hotel room sits silently; telephone waiting for your call.
The missing ring echoes across thin pale walls
The chamber seems empty without you there
As the vacant pulse that used to be my heart.
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i like to think that life is growth
and learning all we do
and somewhere there’s a you for me
and somewhere me for you
and looking does not look for you
cuz looking looks for me
that when we chance to bump and smile
i’m who i need to be
but here i am and chance pray tell
then where the hell are you?
could it be that hope and faith
and fate are all a ruse?
i can’t believe what happens happens
and not a reason why
it can’t be true i bare to bear
and true i cry to cry
so i will trust as common fool
with not a sign to see
and plow my soul to bear the fruit
and hope you’re ‘waiting me
and hope that not as parallels
we course along the veins
that somewhere someone makes a turn
and broadside comes the reign!
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Was once upon a time
I ‘d not the words to say
The feelings in my heart
The way I feel today
There was when I would sit
And try to write a part
Something deep within me
That wouldn’t let me start
But now my eyes are opened
And now my heart can see
The thing that held me back
Was fear inside of me
Of what had I been scared?
What was it that I lacked?
Upon me fin’lly dawns
What kept my love off track
Knowing you is loving
And loving you I know
I put my heart at risk
And trust our love will grow
Trust it is not easy
When one’s as scared as this
To take a leap of faith
And risk finding abyss
But what it is I know
Now, come whatever may
No matter where we go
I’ll treasure every day
That we have spent t’gether
And blessed I’ll be I know
To count among my gifts
The times I’ve loved you so
Times I’ve held you near me
When mem’ries all I sift
Will be my greatest joys
Will be my soul’s great lift
So as you walk this earth
Whatever you enjoy
Remember that you made
A man of one young boy.
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