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“You Mean The World To Me”

21 Monday May 2012

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I may never get the chance again
I may as well not hold it in
You mean the world to me

I may not get to tell it all
I may suffer from withdrawals
When we roll separately

You mean the world to me

More than I’ve conveyed
More than I’ve displayed
More than any frequency

You mean the world to me

And in case this is my final call
And I lose my wherewithal
Just know eternally
You mean the world to me

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“With A Love Like Yours”

10 Thursday May 2012

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Helpless I was indeed helpless
Until now
Rejoicing I am stronger because you
Touched my life somehow

And a love
Like yours
Lets my spirit soar

Guides me to a world
Of peace I
Never knew before
Everything is possible…

…With a love like yours

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“Better Half”

06 Sunday May 2012

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When I think of you
I fly my flag above at half mast
From whatever prime it is
I see the one I love at half past
Whatever time it is
All because I gave my heart so half ass
Today the climate is
Cold, damp & dark – a half glass
Without a lime & fizz
And I’m too old to pour a spark
I’m half as strong as usually
That’s why you were my better half
And when I think of you
I long for what used to be

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unexpectedly (I Got A Blessing Today)

04 Friday May 2012

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Arriving unexpectedly
In God’s perfect timing
I got a blessing today

It protected me
While I was mountain climbing
And stressing today

Bills were mounting up
And I was heading for the hills
All morning counting up
More & more bills
Past due down to my last, ooh…
No new legal & tender
For the landlord, utilities or groceries
No flying eagle for my local vendors

Well, I didn’t win the lottery
But I can still boast
I did get what I needed most

A boost from my Creator who connected me
With FAITH the Motivator unexpectedly
It’s God that I’m indebted to

And I’m confessing today
What FAITH Does I will let it do
I got a blessing today
And some spiritual credit too

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i should have said “I Love You” more

02 Wednesday May 2012

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I should have said, “I love you” more

So many times I could have
Held you in my arms and
Opened up – I really should have
Used the time more preciously
Looking back from here I would have
Done whatever I did not – now that I know I could have

How could time just slip away?
And time again my heart ignore
Virtually every thing
Each part of me is sorry for…

…My number one regret is
I should have said, “I love you” more

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“my SECOND skin”

30 Monday Apr 2012

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You are my second skin
One with me – we mesh
Underneath the soul within

…Far beyond where there is flesh

And you are my next of kin
Rarest of the rare –
Extent of your loss, what then?

…More than my heart could bear 

My second skin and my first love
You’re what I thirst love in the inner me…

…And my burst of higher energy 

Savoring you protects me when
Earnest devotion begins to believe
Companionship is rejecting a friend – I grieve
Once emotion is worn on my sleeve
Not that you’d abandon ship of this I can be sure
Destiny stitched the layers weaved… 

…There is nothing about us impure

So in this context we blend
Kindred spirits through & through
I see you as my second skin
Notably thicker to insulate me from a colder view…

…You breathe in me a warm second wind
And blow me away by you just being you

 

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I Don’t Know The Meaning Of “I Surrender”

27 Friday Apr 2012

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I refuse to be dissuaded
Deterred or denied
The shelter & comforts
Of the other side

You can attempt to block me
From all its shimmering splendor
But I don’t know the meaning
Of I surrender

What is this?
What does it mean?
Rolling off my tongue
It sounds obscene

I have not relayed it
Nor is it referenced on my ride
No matter how bumpy the road gets
Or tumultuous the tide

Your steely contempt may rock me
I am a contender
I don’t know the meaning
Of I surrender

Passionately I have played it
Without brakes applied
My soul has been my compass
My heart has been my guide

They are exempt when life knocks me
Away from my defender
I don’t know the meaning
Of I surrender

I will move on till I’ve made it
Through the hurt that haunts my stride
Safely to the haven
On the other side

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“A Poem For Your Love”

22 Sunday Apr 2012

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If I climbed a mountain
Would it be enough
To prove I’m worthy?

If I poured my soul out to you
Would you use my words
To hurt me?

If I come off as vulnerable
Would you take advantage of
Things in me that constitute real love?

It is highly unusual
Possibly improbable

But if I sailed three oceans
Would this suffice
And stimulate approval
For human sacrifice?

That give & take permissible
For a foolish heart to do
Honorably to honor
How deep I swam & climbed
 And fell for you

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“For The Goddess She Is”

15 Sunday Apr 2012

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How do I tell her
I’m her secret admirer
That I desire her
More than the air that I breathe
How do I tell her
To never leave

I want to inspire her
With encouraging words
To reach for the higher her
Though her vision is blurred

How do I tell her
Not just the quiet & shier her
I love the entire her
And who she is when she bleeds
How do I tell her
She’s every thing I need

The way the gods wire her
How modest she is
My feelings require her
For the goddess she is

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“A Net To Catch My Soul”

07 Saturday Apr 2012

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My life is a series of relationships
It queries at my fingertips
Life is always clearly in salvation’s grip
Even if I slip and it
Swallows me whole
There is a net to catch my soul
One not weary in the theory of relativity
Nor eerie in the sphere of its proclivity
Ever cheery when it’s near me in its starring role
Should I fall there’s a net…

…To catch my soul

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