You're the fire in my soul,

Can’t keep it down, gonna burn me whole.

They said take I’d better take it slow

But while I’ve got the courage I gotta go.

Maybe we were never meant to be,

But now we just have to see...

Strike a match, and watch it burn

Up my bridges so I can’t return.

Take the ashes, put them in an urn,

Testament for later to the lesson I've learned:

Sometimes you gotta take chances,

And love's one of those complex dances,

You get burned if you mess with a flame

But that's part of the price for playing the game.

I'm the better. She's the worse,

But you've only got eyes for her.

I just want to be special to you,

You're special to me.

I look in your eyes, you look at me,

But I'm lucky you can't tell what I'm thinking.

Saying nothing staring at me, stop doing that,

You're pulling at my heartstrings....Please....

Please, please, love me,

Please, please, be with me.

I can't say anything, you chuckle and smile,

Can't breathe, my heart beats a million miles.

But then a sound distracts you from me. It's her again....

And you're leaving.....

Now I'm all alone,

While you're with her,

Driving her home.

What is it? Am I not enough?

Pretty, skinny, kind enough?

Please, please, love me,

Please, please, be with me.

I want this to end.

Her with you, and me just your best friend.

What's this? The second or third time,

She's broken your heart? It's about time that instead you're mine.

Honestly, I'm being selfish, I know,

But I sick of seing you go.

You say, "I really love you."

I say, "I do too." But you don't mean it the same way I do.

Please, please, love me,

Please, please, be with me.

Please, please, don't hate me.

Please, please, realize and notice my beauty.

Please, please, know that I only care about the best for you.

And the best for you is me. And the best for me is you.

Please, Please, I love you.

Please, please, love me too....

In dappled green and dappled gold

Your song floats by upon the breeze

This scent of new and fresh and old

It whispers hope of care and ease

From tight within the winter’s grip

While cold cuts spirits like a knife

You wait in patient stewardship

Of silent will, of sleeping life

And when the winter melts away

You’re there to fill the Earth and sky

With testaments to nature’s force

The stubborn beauty they belie

This beating heart that thaws the snow

These woods I love, these woods I know

Love, thou art like to a winter day

Gleaming, shining, crisply bright

With frosty eye upon my plight

You hold the heart that I, trusting, lay

At your small feet. Do not crush it, pray!

Dainty fingers hold it tight

But gentle, till winter’s light

Blurs its harsh edge to a soft decay

And spring blooms in your eye

Waking dormant roots

That lay quiet in your breast.

Love, give me leave to try

To wake love’s tender shoots

That we may harvest summer’s best.

What is life but his heart ever so enticed,

His creation from the bees made such fresh honey.

Lips blazen with Autumn’s warmth and its spice,

In I breathe the wine that eminates sweet.

Solace as we lay through tangled limbs,

His eyes withhold the flower and its thorns.

Set ablaze my hearth the fire within,

In the familiar hums of a house untorn.

But the quiet was soon to be unbecoming,

Can't death be failure against our defiance.

I wait for my bones to stop their shaking,

I watch the world and all of its silence.

Such sweet memories that remain in dreams,

I dare not be stolen ever from me.

In thou I waltz beneath the bower white,

A woven canopy of floral vine,

Where incensed airs and zephyrs in sunlight,

Provide a bouqet for the berry wine,

Approaching to the altar in mid-day,

and here the honysuckle winds upon,

the marble tablet swirled with stormy gray,

protruding busts of syrinx piping fauns.

Oh season of the drones and butterflies,

When honey’s in the air amidst the fray,

of multi-coloured vibrant floral dyes,

and warbling notes of birdsong that portray,

the primavera vox of motley hues,

that conjures solstice darklings to debut.

With a single hand you support my spine,

Reminding me the weight of the world is not mine.

The challenges you lay on the table each day,,

You strengthen my armor and bolster my will.

You reflect my worst fears and surface them all,

To assure me I'm tough, even though small.

The challenge you lay on the table each day,

Force me out of my own stubborn way.

And I cannot begin to bear you chagrin,

When I lose in a game, I always should win.

So I strive to be more, to grow and mature,

To break every window and open each door,

To equally play and wholeheartedly stay,

Thankful and greatful through each passing day.

You came to me before I knew of time.

I found you on a clock’s unnumbered face,

And as we fell there was a cruel chime.

The hands and dials marching to their place.

You lay beside me in seconds gone by,

I feel you in the hours that have passed.

The sun and moon trade places in the sky,

Reminding me I cannot make you last.

But, there are nights when moments do stand still,

And you are full before me, without end.

I try to fool the clock, its steady will,

To memorize you, revel and transcend.

But secretly, I know, beyond my idle rebuffs,

That no amount of time will ever be enough.

You arrived in my life like a swift cool breeze

Sweeping me all so suddenly off my feet

All those feelings I could never release

They would break free whenever we'd meet

Many a moment were lost and I could never seize

But now are within my grasp ever since you came

Me who before never even thought of your name

Now I cant even get you out of my head

Why is it so that I feel this way

Why do your visits make my heart sway

All the romances I used to read

They did not speak of this need

Never preparing me for this emotion

About giving someone all your devotion

Is it because you now occupy a part of my heart

That I am unable to get you out of my head.

Many a sleepless night you have kept me awake

Thoughts of you plague me but just for your sake

I'd even lose sleep if I'd see you the next day

Once you appear I forget what I'm about to say

Such is the hold you have over me

Yet you are so oblivious to see

How without you I just cant be.

What would it be like

If we went flat broke-

Lost our house, and our cars

Our dinners out and our shows

We’d have no pool service or house cleaner

No cable or phones

No highlights or birtchbox or manicured toes

We’d be left with what looks like

One of my happiest times

Eviction notice and Pawn shops

When I was on Cloud 9

Ramen noodles and five channels

Counting change

Sitting in your front seat

How weird what was strange

Having been in the background

You were finally mine

The novelty of knowing

A reciprocation of kind

The whole world was against us

Wanting us to fail

Turned backs and shadows

That disapproving chill

We closed the door and sat in the glow

Rabbit ears providing

The Jerry springer show

The square feet didn’t matter

While you were in that space

I went to the dark side

For your smile and your voice

The richness that fills me 

That I could never replace

Is your laughter at my jokes

And the direction of your gaze

When I fell for you

I didn’t dream of a house

A white picket fence or a fancy night out

I didn’t think about cars

Or the pool we would have

I just wanted to be given

To you by my Dad

The promise you made

While we were sitting in the car

At Robertson park

Seemed hopeless and far

I didn’t believe you, but didn’t have the heart to say

There’s no way on earth 

It could work out this way

But I’d just felt your hug

For the very first time

And I wasn’t done memorizing

My heart against my mind

I’d always choose the latter

But that’s when you said

The promise I didn’t believe

But I just nodded my head

“You’ll wear a white dress

And your Dad will give you away”

The thought was absurd 

That would be the day.

I made my decision to ignore my mind

We’d look for treasure without a map

I didn’t care what we’d find

I’d rather walk circles with you

Lost in the woods

I’ll follow you blind

I always would

But look where you’ve brought me

Your promises kept

Making my life better

Than I had right to expect

So what would it be like

If we went flat broke?

Worst case scenario

I think we would float

We’d roll our sleeves up

And get to the grind

That’s adventure; this yours and mine

You can say you married up

But I smile, I know the truth

I'm happy to roll a blunt

And ride the 610 Loop