O
nce I met a man
U ntamed by life and love
T rapped by prison walls and
L egal
words and phrases, yet
A lways looking to tomorrow
W ith outstretched arms.
***
M oments worth remembering are few
E very one is not worthwhile.
M oments
spent with you I'll keep
O nly to use them again and again
R eminding me how warm
it felt there
I n your arms.
E ven now my pulse races,
S howing "You" in
the theater of my mind
***
T oo many hours spent
I n memory o
every
M
oment we
E ver knew.
Will we be strangers when we meet again?
Will our lives have changed that much?
Will
we be playing a game of pretend?
Will I shy from your once welcome touch?
Will
we be just friends or once more lovers?
Or will I play the part of a fool?
For
all of life is one game or another
And life constantly changes the rules!
Never a day goes by
that you don't cross my mind.
Remembering what
we had,
I somehow always find
Myself dreaming of more,
wanting
more time with you,
Wanting to learn your ways
in all the things you do.
You're
such a joy to know
and thus somehow I find
That never a day goes by
that you don't cross my mind.
***
I wish I could see you again.
I'd
tell you I've missed you my friend.
The days have been long and oh so cold
Without
your warm loving arms to hold
Me close and your lips to kiss away my cares.
Oh,
how I miss the times we shared!
***
‘Though the distance between
us is measured
In minutes and hours and miles,
The moments we shared are each
treasured,
The laughter, the tears and the smiles.
Come now my love, as only you can...
Enter into my thoughts, lovingly, tenderly,
Enfolding
my soul with your warmth.
I can go only so long without wanting you
And then
the need becomes more than I can bear.
Your laughter rings in my ears.
I look
at others and your face appears.
Your presence drifts through my thoughts
Like
invisible clouds through the darkest night.
I can close my eyes and feel you pull
me close.
Your fingers entwine in my hair.
Your lips rest softly on mine.
And
paradise is but a dream away!
Just the thought of you is all it takes to make me blue.
Just the thought of
you and all the things we used to do.
I can smile and think of all those wondrous
times
When afternoons might find us side by side
Loving in the silence of an
empty field,
With only some few branches there to be our shield.
And we would
look upon the world as lovers might,
Oft through starry eyes or tear-filled sight.
Surely,
time cannot erase the joy we knew,
For just the thought of you is all it takes
to make me blue.
Long ago and far away I walked a wind-swept beach.
I watched the tides go in
and out and seagulls soar to reach
a blue horizon drifting there beyond the farthest
wave.
I felt the warmth of summer wind brush lightly ‘cross my face.
I
heard your voice and quickly turned; my mind began to race,
finding anew the hours
we'd shared, the memories I'd cherished.
But though I yearned to see you there,
my eyes were filled with tears,
for ghosts of love were all I found floating ‘cross
the years.
In sea foam mist they quickly formed, then vanished once again.
I read our poems again today, the lines we lived together.
I read of love and
sadness, of joy and many tears...
I tried so hard to lose myself among the
well-worn pages,
to return into our past, go back across the years...
To
find again contentment in resting by your side;
and feel again the tenderness
you showed in every kiss...
But all too soon I realized, the past is still
the past;
and all our poems but memories of times I'll always miss.
Where are the hours,
the days, the years?
Where is the laughter, the sorrow, the tears?
Where are the moments of sunshine and rain?
Where is the happiness?
Where is the pain?
Where is the smile, the gleam in your eye?
Where is your kiss, your breathless sigh?
Whenever I need you, where
will you be?
Where
memory lingers and our love runs free,
In my heart Dear!
Do I think of you? Of course I do!
From day's first light ‘til day is through,
In
early morning shadows, or warmth of sunny noon,
While strolling ‘cross the meadow,
or gazing at the moon,
In dreams you haunt my nights. In thoughts you fill my
days.
No longer in my arms, but in my heart to stay!
Long and lonely days and nights,
Once spent happily with you,
Now spiral
slowly into eternity,
Leaving only love's memories
To warm my chilling soul.
A lighted window, an open door,
Sounds of laughter fill the air.
Name your
poison, watch it pour,
Drown the sorrows that yo bear
--Don't be alone--
Just
a lovely winter evening,
Breathless snowflakes kiss my nose.
Walking slowly,
sometimes weaving
‘Round the snowdrifts - I suppose
--I'll soon be home--
Past
the lights and past the laughter,
Sorrow weights my heavy heart.
I love you
now and ever after!
This empty house is only part
--Of missing you--
Time, an agony of waiting.
Hours, days, years of contemplating
What the
future may bring.
If we could but see the things
Which someday would be encountered,
Ways
in which problems could be surmounted
Might easily come to mind.
On the other
hand, we may also find
No wish to continue through life's strain
And choose
an early death in lieu of pain.
Out upon the beach at dawn,
I hear the seagulls calling.
Out beyond the
waves I'm drawn,
I can feel my body falling.
Down beneath the foam and spray,
How
cold the water's touching.
Down amid the kelp I'll stay...
How fast my thoughts
are rushing!
Why must all the ways of man
Be masked in secret meaning?
Why
must all we try to plan
Be lost in futile dreaming?
One life can have so little
love,
Yet another life so much;
One life blessed from Heaven above,
Yet
another so out of touch...
In vain I walked the crowded streets.
The answers
were not there.
In time, along this lonely beach,
My thoughts began to clear
Today
I'll rest forevermore
Beneath the sea's white foam.