As Others Saw

In a world of couples are single figures

A heart that dreams, a mind that lingers.

Through remnants of love some lives will wander;

The heart to reflect, the soul to ponder.

In rivers of doubt some swimmers drown,

And heavenward eyes despair in a frown.

Though love will return to re-kill the reborn

Naïve victims whisper ‘this time won’t be wrong’.

 

 

Standing on a Beach

While water laps

Around the feet

Of those whom fate

Allowed to meet.

 Beneath a light

Yet dimming sky

Are lovers gazing

Eye to eye.

And other lives

Seem out of reach

To lovebirds standing
On the beach.

Along the stretch

Of golden sand
Are lovers walking
Hand in hand.

Surrounded by

A secret charm
They’ll walk forever,
Arm in arm.

Never Too Late

It’s never too late for love

If you’ve got a heart of stone
And if your soul can rise above
The unknown and the known.

It’s never too late for caring

When you’ve nothing left to hid,
And the memories worth sharing
Are locked too deep inside.

It’s never too late for dreaming

If you still spend nights alone
And if the love you’re feeling
Has never yet been shown.

It’s never too late for crying

Over abandoned desire,
To smile instead of lying
And learn to fight fire with fire.

 It’s never too late for goodbye

If there’s nothing left within
And the relationship you tried
Is reduced to living in sin.

It’s never too late to forgive

The wrong you were done in the past;
For it’s like a party we live
And parties aren’t meant to last.

Endless Love

All that’s left of us is love

Though we’re nothing at the start.
All we have is what we give
And we give away our hearts.

Like the look that says so much,

And continues what’s begun
By the magic of a touch
That searches for someone.

A never ending story

That says too much too soon
About potential glory
And inevitable doom.

Yet deaf to heedless warnings

Of romance’s hidden charms,
We’ll spend our nights and mornings
Wrapped in each others arms.

 Like a sun that goes on shining

We will love until we die,
Always on and upward climbing
Until we reach the sky.

Jade

The whirlpool of feelings

That crowd my mind
When looking into your eyes,
And fight in vain
To keep confined
Are hard to verbalise.

The words you say

Are all infused
With sweet simplicity,
And leave behind
A heart confused
By electricity.

The gentle touch

Of tender hands
Within a shortening night,
Opens up heaven
And all its lands
As darkness turns to light.

To fall in love

Then have to part
And leave the one you’ll miss,
Yet go on fighting
Heart to heart
With only a photo to kiss.

 

More than Loving

In waking hours

To dream of you,
Behind closed doors
And masked from view.
To hear words echo
Around my head
Of all I felt
And never said.

 To dream of love

That lasts forever,
And know that we
Will stay together.
As one to live
Till life expires
And terminates
Our joint desires

To find an answer,

Cold, forlorn.
Lacking someone
To keep them warm,
And offer love,
Love to receive –
The one who doubted
Now believes.

To whisper truths

That say so much
And hope you’ll always
Be in love.
With honest hearts
That seem to know,
To say ‘I’ll never
Let you go’.

Were you There?

A land torn by war;

A desert called home,
Where it’s hard to ignore
The lost and alone.

A child that is crying;

A baby to feed;
Yet people are dying
From another man’s greed.
 

While beautiful faces

Fight back the pain
They dream of oases
And pray for the rain.

A child of the future

Who’s hounded by flies,
Surrounded by torture
And hatred and lies.

Will death’s victory sound

Before the blind see?
Or will men still drown
In their blood, on their knees.

If we don’t live together,

Together we shall die
From petty feuds that last forever
Beneath a barren sky.