Category Archives: Love
shoulder rose
she stumbled out in front of your car
arms up wiping blood from her nose
you wouldn’t have recognized her
if it wasn’t for her shoulder rose
a little faded on older skin
you held her hand as she winced
two months later she slapped your face
and you haven’t seen her since
for a while she was a ghost
in the night, you’d think you see
you hoped for her everytime
there was a message on your machine
and through your windshield you can hear
her shouting, “watch where you’re going!”
oh the questions you could ask
you’re mostly afraid of knowing
pull the key out and open the door
you used to pray you’d find her
touch the rose that she once swore
would serve as a reminder
fallen leaves
hidden in the winter woods
bare and swaying in the breeze
she looks down upon the ground
as if to beckon fallen leaves
sweetly shy she shivers
blushes red with every dawn
till her lover comes with spring
to slip her new dress on
whatever’s next
he found her from the footprints in the snow
she ran away but she had nowhere to go
and no lie could be a fitting mask
one look and he didn’t have to ask
with an arm around her shoulder he stayed there
in the silence she knew that he cared
she cried until the tears froze to her cheek
he wiped her face and found the voice to speak
he said “i don’t know what you’ve been through
but whatever’s next i’ll go with you”
she wished she’d never heard his words before
but they’re often said by guys trying to score
everyone who’s held her has told her to lie down
and look for love in between sheets
(where it cannot be found)
but something in his voice closed her eyes
and she hoped for once love wasn’t telling lies
she leaned in to kiss him thinking that would make him stay
he put a finger to her lips and again she heard him say
i don’t know what you’ve been through
but whatever’s next i’ll go with you
if we kissed
if we kissed would you slap my face?
would a kiss be out of place?
if i loved you and told you so
would you fold your arms and tell me no
like a parent with a little boy
pointing to an expensive toy
would you tell me “surely someone else”
“just leave this one up on the shelf”
i’m sure that’s what you’d say
so i’ll shove love out of the way
and trip and fall and crawl along
i’ll hum off-key an old love song
and forever i will pretend
i am nothing but a friend
what man
what man would fight an army
what man would stand alone
hearing the predictions
facing unbeatable foes
but love, now here i stand
drawing shallow breath
outnumbered by the hopeless
facing certain death
i refuse to say i’m sorry
of love i’m not ashamed
i do not fear the falling
when i speak your name
to keep this somehow special
is this just a common tale
of a boy who pledged his heart
and eventually he fails
the enemy is moving in
what makes me think dreams come true
all the evidence i need
i find in you
poetry fails
your voice sways the curtains
soft as a breeze
so long since i’ve felt this
i miss you
poetry fails
words grind against
feelings i hide
i love you
and i don’t care
as long as you
as long as you
don’t leave.
intimacy
intimacy the magic and the fury
of being for you what you are for me
i want to discover, till i can’t remember…
what it was like to have to wonder
your skin, fragile under sunlight
my lips against the sensative spots
the heat of closeness, we stare…
i trace lines through your hair
hands against you
words wait by the bed
what we’re making
can’t be said
shadows squeezed out by our light
making eternal this trembling night
and i close my eyes to hear you try
to feel the full effect of a heavy sigh
and then you laugh
and there we lie
and i never say
goodbye
half a mind
guy meets girl and doesn’t stand a chance
i’ve sung this song, i’ve done this dance
where i stumble on the edge of hope and fantasy
and fall on reality eventually
but you’re almost enough that i believe
dreams come true and rabbits come from sleeves
and if you don’t know how amazing you are
i’ve half a mind to tell you
Bees
They say love can change a man.
I guess I could never understand
Until I met you
Now I know it’s true.
‘Cause when I’m around you
I never know what to say
When I’m around you
The silence is A-OK.
When I’m around you
I don’t care what’s on tv
When I’m around you baby
I’m not afraid of bees
you make me brave
you make me strong
you make me… happy.
you make me the man i’ve always wanted to be.
my friends laugh they say
“have we met before?”
but don’t want to be
the old me anymore
now that i’ve found you
i feel brand new.