THE BOOK OF LIFE

 

My life is like a book

Filled with all the special moments

And endless characters

Each page a catalogue of my experiences

Every up and down

Every high and low

But my life only truly began

When you turned the page

And started a new chapter

YOU ARE MY RAINBOW

 

Red is for your passion

Orange is love’s warm glow

Yellow is the light

Green is for your eyes

Blue is for the clarity

Indigo is for your radiance

Violet the scent of love

And like my love for you

A rainbow has no end

SOMETIMES THERE IS RAIN

 

Life cannot always be sunshine

Sometimes there is rain

But when both come together

Then beauty is our gain

As a rainbow is the result

Iridescent in the sky

YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE

 

You are the sunshine

That makes the whole world smile

I am the rain

That cools things down awhile

Together we make a rainbow

That everyone can see

The vibrant colours in the sky

Shout out that you love me

EPITHALAMIUM # 2

As spring turned to summer

Nary a cloud marked the sky

As I looked at my maiden fair

I wiped a tear from my eye

As we stood before God at the alter

And made our vows, my love and I

OVERTHROW OF THE HEART

Love once reigned in my heart

But it has been deposed

Because I didn’t try to keep you

The coup went unopposed

 

Now loneliness reigns supreme

That Prince of misery

If I had fought to keep you

You might still be with me

THE WONDERFUL GIRL I SEE

 

Why do I love you?

Well, it could be

Because you’re beautiful

Or that you’re funny

 

It could perhaps be

That you laugh at my jokes

Or that you chose me

When there are better blokes

 

It might be because

You’re caring and sharing

Or of modest disposition

Though cautiously daring

 

Why do I love you?

It could quite easily be

Your wisdom and intelligence

Or that you’re pretty and witty

 

But it doesn’t matter

What superlatives I apply

Or how long the list of traits

And attributes that I supply

You wouldn’t recognize them

The wonderful girl I see

Would be a stranger to you

Such is your modesty

WHEN WINTER COMES

 

When winter comes

And the first snowflakes fall

Who is the first one in my thoughts?

Who is the first person I call

 

When winter comes

And there is a fresh fall of snow

Who makes snow angels with you?

Is it that you’re the best angel maker I know?

 

When winter comes

And there’s fresh snow on the ground

Who builds the snowman with you?

Is it that you make the best snowmen around?

 

When winter comes

And we spend all of our time together

Have you ever wondered why?

Do you think that I just like the snowy weather?

 

When winter comes

There is a reason why every winter I call you

It’s the same reason I’ve had since we were seven

I’ve wanted to tell you but have been too scared to

 

When winter comes

The reason I pull off your wet gloves?

And the reason I gently warm your cold hands?

Is that you’re the one I love

THERE IS A GHOST IN MY HOUSE

There is a ghost in my house

That haunts my every waking moment

And infiltrates my dreams

A ghost that taunts and torments

The ghost in my house is you

I am haunted by the memory of you

It is the ghost of our lost love

And I am tormented because I let you go

LOVE IS A ROLLER COASTER

 

Being in love with you

Was like a roller coaster ride

Exhilarating and stomach churning

But not in a good way

Not in that happy waving your arms in the air

Screaming with delight kind of way

 

No not your roller coaster

Oh there was exhilaration

You took me to dizzy heights

When you really took my breath away

When I thought life didn’t get any better than that

Like walking through fields of flowers in the sunshine

Or hand in hand along an empty beach

Declarations of love and promises for the future

Making me feel I was the most special person in the world

 

Then without warning came the stomach churning

That headlong rush into darkness

Cast down into a trough of despair and bitterness

Jealousy and accusations

Venomous verbal tirades and volleys of flying fists

Churning my stomach and breaking my bones

 

Being in love with you

Was like the roller coaster ride from hell

So I got off and walked away

And I will never ride with you again

Your declarations of love and promises for the future

Are just empty words

Drowned out by your venomous tirades

Thinking of you may still churn my stomach

But you will break my bones no more

I got off your roller coaster broken and battered

But with my spirit in tact

BLIND SIDED

 

Love confuses the senses

It tricks us into seeing what’s not there

We see what we want to see

Someone you love, who loves you back

In equal measure

Someone as happy, content, faithful

As you are

But love blinds us

It blinds us to the truth

It fails to register

All the tell tale signs

Of sadness, discontent and infidelity

Until it’s too late

IF I HAD NOT LET YOU GO

 

If I had not let you go

What would we be now?

The perfect couple?

Mr and Mrs Right?

Or sad reflections of ourselves

 

If I had not seen

That we were not right together

We would now be

Bitter and resentful

Fighting like old dogs

Scratching at each others wounds

 

Love made us blind

Your love for me was deeper

And so you were blinder

So it hurt you more

When I let you go

 

I was right to let you go

I didn’t want to hurt you

Though I know I did

But I would have hurt you more

And I would not have regretted it

If I had stayed

 

If I had not let you go

I would have broken you

Broken your spirit

As well as your heart

You would not now know

Loves true face

So I can tolerate your hate

To know you are truly happy

SCENT OF A WOMAN

 

An exotic fragrance filled the air

A heady perfume so divine

A scent that made me giddy

Like being intoxicated on wine

It was the girl with the dazzling smile

And almost luminous eyes

When she spoke each sentence

Was like a string of sultry sighs

Each sweet honey coated word

Delivered from her luscious lips

What import may have been

The honey sound did eclipse

I was mesmerised by her

For how long I could not say

But it is to my satisfaction

That she chose not go away

LOVE FEVER

 

Love is not heralded

By lightning strike

Or thunders crash

Nor by Mantovanni’s Violins,

A chorus of heavenly voices

Or 21 gun salute

Love is more subtle

Love is stealthy

Love creeps up on you

When least expected

It seeps into open pores

Unnoticed and unheralded

Then spreads like a virus

Until you are defenseless

And you are hooked

And there is no cure

DYING OF THE LIGHT

 

On the table

The candle sputters

Flame flickers

Almost guttering

But does not die

 

At the table

A heart yearns

Tears form

As hope fades

She cries inside

At the table

A rhetorically thought

He’s not coming

How cruel

She dies inside

 

At home

Her heart aches

Her spirit breaks

She drains the glass

And she dies

LOVE ALONE

 

Love alone did light

Passions flame burning bright

Emotions slowly stir

For the want of her

Only she can quench the fire

Of this burning desire

Romance in all its glory

Has written this love story

NATURAL HIGH

 

From the moment I met you

I’ve been on a high

A natural high

I feel like I’m walking on air

I giggle to my self

Or laugh out loud

For no reason

And if I start to come down

And I need a fix

I think back to our first kiss

Or the first time I held your hand

Or I re read your love letters

And I’m floating again

Or I’ll call you on the phone

Just to hear your sweet voice

And the call will last for hours

Since falling in love with you

You’ve made me feel young again

With your joy of life

As we run through sprinklers

And swing on the swings

Or make sand castles on the beach

Everything is a joy when I’m with you

Driving in the country

Queuing at the supermarket

Every moment is filled

With good conversation

Punctuated with special glances

We share each other

We share a hot shower

We share a bubble bath.
We share a bed

We lie in bed and listen to the rain

My fingers playing with your hair

And I look into your eyes

And I know you love me

I see it looking back at me

Since we fell in love

I’ve been on a high

A natural high

And I never want to come down

LOVE COMES IN MANY SHADES

 

Love comes in many shades

Ranged as on a colour chart

From “like” to “can’t live without”

Some love knows only sunlight

Others inhabit the dark places

Some are shallow and superficial

Others deep and intensive

Love can simply be physical

Or a mere infatuation

It can be companionable, platonic

Or purely spiritual

Love is both simple and complex.
Often at the same time

It can be of the moment

Or woven through the fabric of your life

It can be merely a veneer

Or layered in strata
But the simple truth is that love

Is the glue that holds the universe together

SOUL MATES UNITED

 

Since the first day

When my life was blessed

When by Gods grace

You entered my world

We shared one love

One heart

One soul

Soul mates united

And life was good to us

So good we didn’t notice

The years quickly slip by

Then you slipped by with them

And I was alone

Half a love

Half a heart

Half a soul

Incomplete

And I could have blamed God

For taking you away

But I thank him instead

For the life we shared

Though I mourn your passing

And yearn for you

I know in my heart

We will be together again

MISMATCH

 

I do love you

You must accept that as a given

There was never any question

Of my not loving you

But there was always something missing

You must have felt it too

A “close but no cigar” kind of feeling

So I do love you

But no matter how great the love

The uncomfortable truth is

You’re not the one

You’re not my soul mate

I wish you were

Because I do love you

But we are not a matched pair

Almost but not quite

But she’s out there

Somewhere, waiting, wondering

Maybe having this same conversation

With her mismatch

She’s out there

The perfect one

The one made for me

The one I was made for

We only get one chance

To get it right

And we have got it wrong

He is out there somewhere

Your perfect half

Who will make you whole

And make you happy

You must seek yours out

And I must search for mine