Was there no truth to your beauty?
What of the lies your beauty told me?
Was your beauty all that there was to see?
Did I not make your beauty part of me?
Your beauty that shone like a beacon in a crowd!
Your beauty that veiled my senses in a shroud!
Your beauty, which deterred seeing your person?
Was your beauty not more a gilded prison?
But time unyielding holds your beauty as hostage,
It acts on your beauty, displaying its ravage.
Your beauty so idly fears that it may lose its face.
Each passing year sends your beauty to its resting place.
Should you once beg of age to have mercy on your beauty,
Just recall what little mercy your beauty had on me.
Champion Ignored
To me you are a beauty queen
As pretty as the bird that sings
Upon the tall sequoia tree
Your voice to me all sweetness brings
My love for you is long and wide
As vast as any earthly sea
My patience must forever bide
Until you find the time for me
Your mind is like a horde of gold
That stretches long beyond my sight
The treasure that I long to hold
Yet could consume me with its might
What can I hope to find within
Besides the drive your love to win
The Spot Of Least Resistance
I will not tell you straight
But this I swear I'll do
Three clues to where it is
I'll give for now to you
For one it is above
A spot you tried before
For two it is the thing
I press against the door
If more than that you need
To you I say just this
Please say my words aloud
Their worth you cannot miss
the power in your words is great
for with one word you can reverse
the emotions that build inside
and with one more you can immerse
my heart in all the love you have
if you decide to add one more
my will shall break and i'll be yours
just waiting for your wish to be
the force that drives me through each day
but do not feel that this is wrong
for it is i who loves you so
that just one word affects me thus
i shall follow you til the end
and after that i will still go
along with you my love i know
Cycle
genesis within the dark
The world is still so small and wet
The land is raised out of water
And God agrees that it is good
A struggle to survive turmoil
Just make it through and you are met
With light that shines upon the world
Again God sees that it is good
How sad it is that you can't see
Your're blind and still you do not fret
And now you get the gift of sight
From God who knows that it is good
Before to long you start to crawl
And like a cripple you can bet
His grace will raise you up to walk
The crowds exalt for this is good
So soon you start to read and learn
Then speak for him to pay your debt
Just like the disciple you are
You spread The Word you know is good
The Devil hears your words each day
And tempts you with his evil pets
You place your trust in God alone
He sees you through and you're still good
Upon your face appears a mark
A Wink
If I give you a wink
It is to let you know
The thoughts I have of you
I should not give to voice
One thing I want for sure
Is to press my lips to yours
And then to wrap my arms
Around your waist so tight
To feel you pressed to me
But even though I want
To tell you all of this
I do not voice my mind
Instead I give a wink
A Short Diddy
In the darkness of the night
While all the world was sleeping
When there were two things of tongue
And three things each of glory
Knowledge Of Love
My love for you grows
As surely as the sun rose
This morning. I know
Feeling so cold
So cold it sees the supplicant crying
At the high wall
So cold the brain doth plead with feeling
Behind the wall
I had thought with such ample reason
Choose her
Lest wait to long for her attention
Lose both
Feet
And slurpee rained to earth from on high
A plague to vex all of man kind
I start my trek to meet the man
Who refused to call a delay
I take a step off of my porch
And follow along the sidewalk
Wading through the slurpee rising
Ignoring the cry of my soles
The tide washes over my shoes
They fend it off as best they can
But from the sky its reinforced
Before too long the tide will win
The walls are breached, the tide still flows
Reserves now rush to stem the rout
But they are soft and poorly trained
The tide, my socks, they are soaked through
Slurpee now coats all that I see
And still pervades my own stronghold
My shoes and socks are compromised
And now my feet are cold, wet dead
Sincere Swindler
Like the moon's chased by the dawn
Someday your wounded heart and pain will be healed
as long as memories
That's my first and my last hope
Hope seed is in the palm of the hand
Follow the way in every direction
Follow the way in every direction
And... I sacrifice everything
For something that I finally get
That's the reason I choose
The thing that should be reached in life
This hope couldn't be dumped
Is that the most you expect?
Pride
What I would give for you to lay
Right next to me for all the night
Can be defined in many ways
To one I would explain it thus
I would give up my claim to air
Another would require this
I would give up all that I own
The third would ask and I would tell
That I would sing and dance in hell
But one of them would laugh and scoff
And say that I would give too much
To them I'd say that they know naught
Of feelings you bestir in me
Yet still I hear their laugh and scoff
And so I turn and bid them cease
They ask of me what would I take
To them I say I would take all
They laugh and scoff and walk away
I charge after to know his thoughts
He said to have you by my side
If even for just that one night
I have agreed to bed the world
Both man and girl and old and young
And by the time I get to you
You will be gone and I shall die
And I would lie beside you dead
For in my pride it had been said
That I would give and take the world
If it would mean that for one night
I would have you to lay with me