Table of contents:
1- Love…
2-…to remember
3-….?
4-Silent echoes…
5- The letter X
6-…because of you
7-…Never surrender
8-…lost
9-…words in a letter
10-…I’m always here
11- An Ode…
12-…mone
13-…A shadow in the light
14-…on a leash
15-…just a voice
16-…to know you
17-If I would write poem to you..
18-Sometimes…
19-…the storm
20-..not a word
21-…if only
love…
Seems I can’t grasp
As it’s too high above
The skills of trust
The ways to show love
Though it is well in reach
For most everyone
For me a mist, a fog
I can not put hands on
Like a limp or a tick
A hinderance you see
This inability to understand
Rarely noticed by me
I can only use words
To erase and to purge
Now a blank page
My love can emerge
Untethered is my love
At your beckon call
I give you my heart
I give you all
Of me
A limb no longer needed
I can finally let go
Feet firmly on the ground
Because of you I now know…
love
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…to remember
As rain starts to fall
Slight chill in the air
A reminder it seems
That I ever did dare
An end to a season
Lest I never forget
Nothing is forever
But the torment of regret
Memories held dear
In each line on my face
Fading with time
But can not keep pace
Watching her dance
In a circle of so many
As I fade in the crowd
In a well a tarnished penny
So I stand in the rain
As I look to the clouds
Each drop a reminder
Of a love since avowed
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….?
Long winded some had said
Then a windshield and my head
In the middle of a road
My life changed when
Left for dead
Everyone said he’s just quiet
If they only knew of the riot
The cacophony of thoughts
Scattered about
Compelled to be silent
Years I had felt
This ability to melt
Into the shadows
Of anonymity
A truth not yet dealt
Then with just a smile
I knew all the while
I have met my Love
As she looked at me
And said sit with me awhile
This day my life change
As thoughts now rearranged
A gift does she leave
Please read…
“hard to explain”
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Silent echoes…
Adrift sometimes
Does my life find
Staring at an empty horizon
No waves nor wind
Does Silence rescind
Any hope that darkness may lighten
Not even a cloud
Does rumble aloud
What I’d give for only one drop
Just to wash away
Memories stained on that day
Silent echoes refusing to stop
Such is my life
At times does it find
An empty home in a shell on the shore
Another lost soul
Spiraling out of control
Till she takes my hand once more
Lost sometimes
As a mirror reminds
Solace, I take solely because of you
Sometimes, just a word
Adrift, now seems absurd
So did I find the Love I always knew
My feet now aground
Asway with every sound
Every urge to run, do you sate
A simple man
Is who I am
Your silent echo, in my soul does resonate
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The letter X
A lonely rich man
What ever could he do
What ever he wants
But never can you
He speaks with no conscience
With such disregard
Yet blames it on the shadows
Not really that hard
To wield such a platform
Like a toy, without a care
If it should hurt someone
Why should he care
Honorable was his quest
Yet somehow did he veer
From his ideals now lost
To the conspiracies held dear
It’s not really that hard
Only honesty and truth
The foundation of humanity
We learn from our youth
Don’t let the purveyors of hate
Shear you as a fleece
To wear on their backs
As lies will never cease
Till they no longer need you
Till you are just a letter
Till the day that you say,
I should have know better
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…because of you
This day now begun
I watch time keep its pace
Each minute into hours
The hands seem to race
Much today to do
As I plan every second
Each tick of the hand
A deadline to reckon
As I lay in my bed
Not much to be said
A day inconsequential
Tied by a thread
Then I open this book
A picture as you both walk
Your smiles enthrall
No need for talk
As I look upon your beauty
I know each line every curve
To stare into your eyes
My inspiration, my Oeuvre
When I looked at the clock
Not a second has passed
Yet it seems years have gone by
Is this immortality at last
So I lay here each night
Eyes fixed on your gaze
Till mine eyes grow heavy
No longer counting the days
A rich man now am I
Not by possessions nor gold
Each day of my life
Filled with happiness eightfold
Because of you
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…Never surrender
I sit here hands poised
A keyboard in hand
In silence we walk
Only footprints in the sand
Voices now requisite
Amass on the polls
Never allow hate to sate
Shine the way for your souls
The voices of the many
Should never be drowned
By the meaninless drone
Of an angry voice with no sound
I’m old I admit
But I revel in the strength
Of the youth of this world
Your determination to wit
Never bow to the aggressor
Hold fast to your dreams
Never surrender
It’s easier than it seems
Trust me
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…lost
Useless I seem
Or is this just a dream
Sometimes I don’t know
The truth
To say I don’t care
Out of nowhere
Is farthest from the truth
A failure to you
Don’t know what to do
Confused am I sooth
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…words in a letter
I don’t know how to tell you
I lack the ability, you see
So many thoughts scramble the words
I try so hard to set free
A handful am I
I do admit it’s true
If only I could explain
If only you knew
I stand here in awe
Eyes fixed on the light
Of my moon in the sky
Such a beautiful sight
While tethered to earth
By your beauty am I pulled
Never to be one
Never to be full
For only one touch
Yet out of reach does it seem
Am I holding onto a fantasy
Of a hope in a dream
In this letter I write
With a tear and a sigh
Of only two letters
Just You and I
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…I’m always here
I see you now, My Love
Your stronger every day
But a burden have I become
A hindrance would you say
My only fear you know
Is that I keep you from the one
Who could be there in your life
So a new life could become
Please don’t hesitate to tell me
Only honesty can exist
You could never hurt me darling
If your happiness is at risk
You know I will always Love you
I hope you would the same
I fear your life can not get better
While tethered to my name
Please think on this my Love
Think of what’s best for you three
I can not bare to see you alone
If being alone is caused by me
Should you choose that road
Please know I’m here
If ever you should fall
My back will never turn
I’m always here
For you to call
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An Ode…
My voice can’t speak
Of my feelings for you
Only written words
Can say I love you
Have tried for so long
Yet I could never explain
The true feelings I had
Spoken words all in vain
Hidden within
Kept far out of reach
Shackled by time
Words separated from speech
The day I met you
The day I was set free
The day you unlocked
The chain bound to me
An Ode to my Love
Every day do I write
A love when I wake
My Love thru the night
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… mone
How can it be
All my life I stood alone
Never in need of another
A cold heart of a stone
How can it be
Is this weakness or fear
Needing your love
Wanting you near
How can this be
I never was shown
True love does exist
In the warmth of my Mone
Now I know this is true
As my heart has since warmed
By the heat of your Love
Loneliness now forlorn
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…A shadow in the light
Walking just a step behind
A shadow in the light
Always there to help each thought
Never out of sight
A whisper in my ear at times
Helping when words elude
A lift for inspiration
As each line of words ensue
Never at a loss for words
Aflow from hand to paper
Without my pen in hand
This river turns to vapor
I walk each day in solace
That my shadow is always near
To free the words kept deep inside
Locked behind this mirror
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…on a leash
Not of a conspiracy theory I speak
Please allow me to say
Just the simple observance
Of simple minds held at bay
Our Congress and Senate
The voice of us all
In tune with those who elected
So is democracy’s honest call
We the people chose this path
By votes do we abide
The left and the right
Must respect the choice of each side
An impudent child now runs
His platform based on lies
He feasts on the ill-informed
While he treads upon their lives
Yet now in congress and senate
Are sycophants led on a leash
Our voices are silenced
By lies, intimidation at the least
Stand firm Do I proclaim
Against a divisive pastiche
Who now force the congress and senate
All chained it the back yard on a leash
Your vote does matter
If only to make a stand
Never allow the flames of hate
Be so carelessly fanned
VOTE your voice and cut the ties
We must end the strings of lies
By two careless Autocrats
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…just a voice
It’s only words on a line
On a page in a time
When a thought rushes by
When some words intertwine
Not a poet am I
If only had the gift
To expose the beauty
Of words that explain, only if
To see the beauty
When each letter is writ
When a thought, a feeling,
A candle is lit
This is my onus
The reason I write
Each letter, each word
From darkness comes light
No reason nor rhyme
Just a glimpse within
In a mirror
On a wall
Not sure how to begin…
To write…
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…to know you
On a hill in the sun
Your words are so clear
A distance too far
Yet I long to be near
In awe of your words
If ever to be know
Reverence videlicet
If only I could show
You have the gift
The ability to speak
Each meaning of each word
I so diligently seek
To know you
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If I would write poem to you..
If I would write a poem
Of only you it would be
A poem to last eons
No words no letters to see
A poem only for you
Why else would I write
No paper nor ink
Only my thoughts on this night
Consequential so are you
Never forget who you are
To bring hope and love
A message with such devoir
No need to be remebered
Doesn’t matter any way
To give yourself without reprise
And help just one today
If I would write to you
Surely you would know
Your the trickle of a spring
The river to overflow
If I would write to you
I hope you may one day know
A poets strength
A poets Love
The words that always grow
I think you already know
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Sometimes…
Sometimes I don’t know
As the questions always grow
Please accept I’m a bit slow
To understand what we have
Sometimes do I fall
Against this endless wall
Thru a maze do I crawl
To understand what we have
Always when I look at you
Only beauty and Love shine thru
It’s then I see Love True
The Beauty of the Love we Have
Always I thought I knew
Our Love was there I knew
I would find her, yes I knew
Our life a choreograph
Sometimes I get lost
Can’t find the way past
Knowing of the cost
To our Love….
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…a storm
A chill in the air as I wake
On this morn
Rain silently falling a prelude
To a storm
It starts with just thought
Just a whisper in my ear
Resounding evermore
As the thunder grows near
Try as I might,
I can’t out run the fury
Of this storm that is coming
With each step I become wary
So I sit here on this day
Boots soaked to my feet
Let it rain on me today
Let the storm so be replete
This a moment in an hour of a day
When the words can’t find a path
At a loss of what to say
Imagery the means I choose to relay
Of simple obstacles that face me
Most every day
Please don’t get caught
In the tangled web of thoughts
Just my brain working thru
A maze overwrought
The storm now has passed
By the hand of my Love
A love meant to last
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…not a word
As I look to the floor
Walking thru the door
Mindless steps are taken
When I look back in the mirror
And the path becomes clearer
Could my choices all been mistaken
The hope of finding Love
Was this only just a dream
From which I was destined to be awakened
I sit here in pause
Pen and paper in hand
My dreams all been forsaken
Not a word finds it’s way
From my hand to the pen
Not a thought can explain this void
The empty page at which I stare
Stares back with hollow eyes
Not a word, not a sound not a care
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…If Only
If only I could explain
Yet still unable to say
The emptiness that overwhelms
The loneliness of the grey
To understand your love
Is to read a blank page
Knowing the words are there
Locked within a cage
If only you could know
How I struggle every day
With the concept of Love
Though so many times do you say
If only could find the words
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