Stuck....

I'm not motivated
I'm just staring at my screen
Hoping that I'll find
A way to say just what I mean

Tipping

If you could feel my heart right now
You'd feel the pieces all asunder
Breaking from this heavy weight
All this stress that I am under

I know that you cannot see
The position I am in
All you know is your own nose
And your world-welcoming grin

I try to hold myself in tight
Looking for the silver lining
Telling myself the earth will turn
And the sun will keep on shining

Not a love song

I know your secret pretty boy
The one that haunts your dreams
That dark and lustful passion
Seeping slowly from your seams

Devotion has you calling
Has you down upon your knees
Praying for faith to save you
From doing as you please

A good facade can mask
All the thoughts you try to hide
But your words betray the truth
And the desire built up inside

Late afternoon

Sunlight falling gently
on my ivory coverlet
Stirring the dust motes into action
helping me to forget

The stillness broken only
But the persistent little sound
Of a young voice calling to me
Asking for a moment to be crowned

Young Goodman Brown

My bird you sang again tonight
And my heart is now in soaring flight
But dark and troubled was your song
Of whether hearts are safe from wrong
Are you exploring your own inner mind
Wondering what there you are to find?
Or is this a test of what you see
Of human weakness and frailty?
Whatever the source of your newest verse
May this blessing shield you from any curse

Dandy Andy

Dandy Andy was all the rage
Dandy Andy claimed his age
Now Dandy Andy's dead and gone
But his works still live on

Dandy Andy looked around
And made master works with objects found
Dandy Andy made hearts faint
With what he did with pix and paint

From within his gilded cage
Dandy Andy set stage
Despite the years long since past
He made his15 minutes last

No Regrets

Not often do I wish that I chose a different path
But sometimes if I let myself I see where I might have gone
It's a painful, silly exercise that leads nowhere except great pain
So, I shut that side of my mind to keep safe and sane

Green with Flashing Lights

My beautiful green and clueless elf
Nothing more enchanting than yourself
Those sincere and pleading eyes
Elicit languorous, longing sighs
While your dulcet, warming tones
Send shivers through my bones
 

Looking back

I fear that I've forgotten
How bold and brave I was
Back when I was just a youth
Following my very own laws

Now I look back and I see
A cautious, retiring frame
Someone more preoccupied
With living a life most tame

Is it that time marched on,
Leaving me wiser now?
Or is it the younger faces,
Cowing me by showing me how?

Red Sigh

Although I long to touch your face
That smooth yet rugged brow
I know that we're forbidden
Each held back by a sacred vow

You're heart-felt song calls to me
And answer you I must
Despite the danger to my soul
And the shaking of my trust

I cannot look for too long
For fear that I might drown
As in your eyes I see such depth
Those pools of deepest brown

So, my dear I write this ode
To your beauty and your grace
Resigned that only in my mind
Will I ever touch your face