Underneath

All you can judge from
Is all you can see
All you can see
Is all you know

You see me laugh
You see me talk
You see me do
So many things

You see me
Hold many spellbound
The centre of attraction
That is all you can see

There’s more
Than all you can see
Other things
Things you cannot see

Underneath
The polished exterior
Underneath
The banter and laughter

Underneath
Is a broken heart
Waiting to be rescued
Waiting

Underneath
Is someone fragile
Someone innocent
Waiting

Look beyond
All that you can see
See what’s underneath
Someone waiting for you.

My heart would not listen

Thumping
Drums
Pumping
Blood in my ears

I can not stop it
Errant
My heart
I try to stop it

I whisper
I scream
It would not hear
It would not heed

I tell my heart to stop
It would not listen
It thumps still
It loves still

Love is pain,I say
I would spare you
Still my heart loves
My heart would not listen

I present my case
I plead
I threaten
It would not listen

Pain has been my tutor
These past years
Do not begin again
I beg this of you

Stubborn
Innocent
Unyielding
My heart would not listen.

My heart would not listen

Thumping
Drums
Pumping
Blood in my ears

I can not stop it
Errant
My heart
I try to stop it

I whisper
I scream
It would not hear
It would not heed

I tell my heart to stop
It would not listen
It thumps still
It loves still

Love is pain,I say
I would spare you
Still my heart loves
My heart would not listen

I present my case
I plead
I threaten
It would not listen

Pain has been my tutor
These past years
Do not begin again
I beg this of you

Stubborn
Innocent
Unyielding
My heart would not listen.

Whiffs of You

Whiffs of you
Blow through my mind
Every hour of every day
With each I die
Just a little more
As my heart breaks
Into a few more pieces
See my heart
Faithful and true
See my heart
Broken and then bound
This is the death I live
This is not the life you promised
This is not the dream
My heart was led to believe
Sadly
I have not known another
Since the first whiff of you.

Love’s epitaph

On the gravestone
The final farewell
To a life spent
Whether well or not

Here lies my life
Here lies my dreams
Here lies the shadows
That I chased

The burial of my first love
My only love
A dream that came true
A dream that refused to come true

Here lies innocence
Alas it was but for a while
That I was nourished
By the nectar of innocent love

It will never be so again
For eyes that have seen
Cannot be made to unsee
The two-sided coin

Power to grant a dream
Power to dash hopes
One and the same
Two sides of the same coin

Will I remember to dream
When the years in pursuit
Finally lay hold on me
As I grow weary of the game

Sing to me
Let your words caress me
Bring back to life
A joy that may never rise

To dream again
One must believe
Not I
Not I

It is all a sham
I was lied to
And for a time I believed
For that time I lived

Still
I wish to believe
Even if it is a lie
Belief would drown out the pain

Here lies my heart
Here lies my dreams
Here lies the lies
I wish again to believe.

The tremors of a broken heart

It’s raining again
The flood leaves my eyes
As the pain streams down my heart
And there’s nobody

Nobody to hear my cry
As I scream
With the dark skies
My only audience

But it’s not over yet
The howling tells me this
It’s going to be a long night
The voices whisper

And then I’m running
Seeking to get far
Faraway from it all
Escape my only reprieve

From
The fears that plague
The anguish of my soul
The tremors of a broken heart

Something happened to me when you walked away

Something happened to my heart 
when you walked away from it
It ceased to receive
Air,blood and life

Something happened to my eyes
When you walked away
It took a picture of you
And froze it in my mind

Something happened to my ears
When you walked away
The last words of love
Became the last words they heard

Something happened to my voice 
When you walked away
It yielded its power to silence
Asleep till love awakens it again
 
Something happened to my sense of smell 
When you walked away
The last scent of you 
Was burned forever into its memory

Something happened to me 
When you walked away
I mourned till I died
In the loneliness and the cold

Unable to see,hear or speak
Frozen forever in that timeless pose
Unable to have anything happen again
Till you return to bring me back to life.