My friend I know you’re hurting and I wish I could be there
To hold your hand and comfort you, to let you know I care
The loss of one so young and dear is hard to understand
And I know it doesn’t help to hear that God still has His plan
I promise that someday your heart will once again be whole
And you will be reunited heart to heart and soul to soul
Until that day remember you have many loving friends
Who hold you in their prayers and will be here when your heart mends.
For Dennis.
I sit beneath the glowing moon
Bright, and close enough to touch
A supermoon to hear it told
A supernatural thing, as such
A night of magic, full of time
Spent without the bonds of men
A wondrous thing where life has rhyme
That touches on the Devine again
I speak my heart, a wounded thing
Crushed beneath the heel of one
Who spoke of love, and life, and us
Too easily said, too easily undone
Bleach my heart and wash my soul
Leach my pain out to the night
Wash o’er me with your rays of gold
And cleanse me with your subtle light
I breathe the scent of summer dark
Relax within the warm embrace
Shared with the fireflies’ precious spark
Feel the night caress my face
My heart is eased with promise made
Of healing in the Earth’s warm hand
Lit by the light of the supermoon
To live and laugh….and love again.
I glimpse the light behind the door
It calls to me to give it life
For air to breathe, to help it grow
That light that dimmed within a wife
Deep within it lives on still
A fragile thing long fed on tears
Pent up within my sorrowed life
Too short the love, too long the years
I glimpse the light behind the door
It beckons with a warm shy smile
It speaks of kisses, passions felt
Caresses, seeking to beguile
Persevering through the pain
It dreams of sorrow’s evanescence
To once again embrace my heart
A gift unsought – love’s luminescence
Breathe me in – consume my all
Tremble with me as day begins
Whisper songs of love and dreams
And souls entwined as one again
Night to day all time is done
Sighs like music sing our song
Bodies’ lyrics harmonized
Two hearts as one to each belong
Mesmerize by touch and smell
Two souls, two hearts one as its twin
Never divided eternally one
Consume my all – breathe me in
evening’s passion
Do you remember me?
Do you remember my touch
The warmth of my breath on your neck
The softness of my sighs
Do you remember me?
That I believed you, and IN you
That I comforted you when you cried
That I loved you when you felt unlovable
Do you remember me?
How we talked for hours into the night
How we planned and dreamed and created
How we loved
I remember you
And I mourn the loss of that man
I hope that someday you return to yourself
Even though it will never again be with me
My soul longs for yours
Of feeling complete
The unspoken words
The touch understood
The dance of hearts
Sing me your love
A song made of dreams
A dream brought to life
A longing fulfilled
A dance of hearts
Fill me up with your song
The melody felt
The lyrics unvoiced
I will breathe in your light
As we dance with our hearts
The trees speak my name in a rustle and sigh
The clouds shape my pain as they rush on by
The lakes drink my tears where they fall as I cry
And my heart begins to heal
I dream the dreams that the rivers know
My heart soars along where the eagles go
It longs for the purity of Winter’s snow
And my heart begins to heal
Maine’s natural songs are my solace, my ease
The strength of the mountains the cool of the trees
The timeless wisdom of the infinite seas
And my heart begins to heal
My own perfect haven, my “Songs From the Wood”
To speak of my heartache, to be understood
To be cleansed of my sorrow, love life as I should
And my heart begins to heal
As I feast on your beauty you quiet my soul
You whisper of newness in forests of old
You quietly calm me when I lose control
And my heart can finally heal
When all my days have come and gone and I have breathed my last
I pray I’ve lived a life that’s full and not dwelt in the past
For I once saw a future bright and full of warmth and hope
But that is gone and now alone I struggle just to cope
With hate and tears and feelings that I never knew could be
I struggle to remember that before you there was me
A person strong and caring who could laugh and love and smile
A friend for life who in times of need would go the extra mile
The woman who you loved once was the one I need to find
Before the “us” that shattered me and left my heart behind
I have returned to home and friends, the people I once knew
They help remind this hurting heart that I am worthy too
And in those unexpected times when colors fade to black
When things occur that make me feel my heart’s under attack
I know that they will be there still to bring me back to “me”
The person whole and full of life – the one I choose to be
No longer sad and torn apart, no darkness in my life
A woman strong and loving not the shell that was your wife
I know that I can find myself and somewhere in that time
I’ll save my soul and heal my heart find rhythm to my rhyme
I look ahead to see the die no longer shadow-cast
And I will dream the dreams of love…
“Fore I have breathed my last
Once my world turned on a smile
A touch, a kiss, but all the while
Your world turned on without me in your heart
A marriage made, a blessing said
I shared my life I shared my bed
Your lies, deceits you shared right from the start
I tried my best to give you joy
A daughter, sons, faithful not coy
You tried to have your wife and mistress too
I never seemed to measure up
The “life half empty” in your cup
While she, your soul-mate, was “the one” for you
“Not good enough” was what you claimed
Mother, partner all defamed
Blamed for all your guilt and lack of care
So why when I at last moved on
Do you blame me now for being gone
Needed now that I’m no longer there
You want my time you want my thoughts
You want the friendship once not sought
You wonder why your life has gone so wrong
She did not stay but left instead
Returning to HER marriage bed
She did not write your name into her song
Not happy when you had my life
Not happy when I was your wife
You want my sympathy, compassion, advice
For now you are all on your own
Your soul-mate from your arms has flown
When commitment to you was asked for she thought twice
No longer will you bring me tears
No longer will you bring me fears
No longer yours to nurture or destroy
My life is mine to laugh or cry
I have myself – I’ve said goodbye
And opened up my heart to future joy
A Love charade
A lover played
A love decayed
You left – I stayed
Once passion wild
We shared a child
You, she beguiled
Our love defiled
A trust abused
Your love a ruse
You would not choose
My heart a bruise
So I have chosen
All feelings frozen
Bleeding emotion
From loves erosion
Slice of the blade
My choice is made
Now unafraid
No more charade
Songs From the Wood 