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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.

that seasons change in times of love

is powerful and true.

what’s gentle breeze across my lips

blows hurricane to you.

in spring the rain can cleanse the soul

and make the world renew

but tears of sorrow flood the land

and salt the morning dew

the summer sun warms every place

and makes the spir’t rejoice

but summer’s heat in dusty days

can parch the gentle voice

in fall the crops are gathered up

and leaves take vibrant hue

but when the leaves begin to fall

what will naked nature do

the winter wind is cold and chills

and frightens every part

but what can break that demon’s spell

like fire in love-stoked heart

and so with every yin and yang

in ebb and flow find peace

for when the seasons cease to change

the journey was the key

Can I suppose a million things,

And dare to dream of heartfelt dreams,

Conjured thoughts of love and life,

Building castles in the sky?

For this is love to big for Earth.

It soars and flies and will not perch.

Where else but on a cloud to live,

Where billowed pillows respite give?

Then off again on angel’s wings,

Dance to songs played on heart strings.

Soaring, reaching every high,

Two loves entwine, and two souls sigh,

Content to in the moment live,

Eternal in the love they give,

Finally finding Love’s lost lift,

Finally sharing Life’s greatest gift.

Into the deepest waters dive,

Knowing that we will survive,

Rough winds, tossed seas rage and scream,

But distant like some airy dream.

Not in the dream of life we know,

For with a kiss you calm the boat.

The storms they can not penetrate,

The steadfast fort that love creates,

A base from where the battle’s fought,

A place to grow what God hath wrought,

A fertile land where hopes come true,

Where in a field lie I and you,

And smell the flower’s potent ply,

And for to rest we close our eyes.

And what can wake us from the spell?

No power on Earth nor none in Hell.

That leaving Heav’n we’re sure to win.

For where else did this Love begin?

Who touched your lips? Who touched my heart?

Who gave us inauspicious start?

But oh, what planted acorns plan,

Could grow a tree the size of man

And woman’s love to vast to grasp?

If you were breath then I would gasp,

And try to swallow ever more,

Inhaling ‘til my lungs were sore.

And so I hold you as we lie.

You must forgive me if I cry.

For you have solved the riddle giv’n,

The reason I was born to live.

To love you, kiss you, hold you tight,

From now until we both shall die.

And until then, all I will do,

Each breath, each act scream, “I love you!”

So softly angel fall to sleep,

Then wake with me and live our dream.