Captive By You

You’ve got magical fingers knowing the tunes of my soul

Laying down my dreams onto the keys of an old piano

I watch your fingers grace each note and I fall in love with your hands

I’ve never been so captivated in my life -you’ve put me in a trance

You finish my song and I’m speechless –nothing to say

Words won’t come out –but I want to say

Don’t stop- never stop! I could watch you play forever

I would watch you play forever

I shiver from the chills you sent down my spine

They leave me wanting more – I need, I long, I pine

I pine for that sensation again and as if you had read my thoughts

Your fingers hypnotize me onceagain giving my desire exactly what it wants

A masquerade painted in the color of music

A fantasy of shades unknown to man that I choose to pick

The sound’s so beautiful I want to cry

A single tear falls from my eye

You keep playing undulating in motion

Tuning out the world and unaware of my emotion

You’re playing my heartstrings winning me over with each measure

You prevail with no endeavor

You don’t need my love you don’t even care

You don’t even know that you’ve stripped me bare

My heart is wide open, but it’s obvious to see

The piano is your only love you have no more room for me

Hidden Beauty

Camouflaged in this life

She blends in with the world

Ebbed out of the limelight

Almost made invisible, because of the flashiness of others

Just one more face in a sea of cloned people

Nothing special, nothing noticeable, nothing memorable

She looks just like everyone else

Shy, quiet, nothing to shout about, but nothing to cry about either

Just ordinary

A hidden beauty

That when she is noticed-

She’s unique, oddly beautiful, almost perfect

She has her flaws, but she’s better than most

A camouflaged beauty, that will one day make one lucky man very happy

Wanting Nothing

Bored out of my mind trying not to think of you

When that’s all I really want to do- is forget you

I remember every time you made me cry, and now it seems

I’ve wasted my life away with dreams

Of how you and I could be

But I just saw reality

And it’s changed my perspective

On what I thought of you- my objective

The stars from the skys

Use to shine in your eyes

But they have floated back into space

And you’re no longer worth the chase

You’re no longer worth the wait, you’re no longer worth my time

Ive given up on the bait that was gonna help real you in and make you mine

I’ve waited too long –I’ve cried too much

Too many things gone wrong – I’m letting them go from my clutch

I’ll be free from pain, free from sorrow

Free of you – a new tomorrow

I’m letting go of you tonight

Blocking you out with all my might

Throwing my wasted years away

Forgetting the words you use to say

So you’re no longer a memory

And no longer a future for me

No longer a good dream gone array

No longer the face of the perfect guy.

Striving to Be

When all backs are turned

When all happiness and joys are burned

When I’m walked upon like shard or soot

When I can’t walk another yard or foot

When my pain is too hard to bare

When I feel like you couldn’t hear one more prayer

When my spiritual light is no longer on

When almost all my hope is gone

When I need it the most you always come through

That’s what I’ve got to do for you

When you need help to fix something that’s fallen apart

When you need a willing mind and kind heart

When you need a daughter to stand up and serve

When you need to be loved like you deserve

Just like when you help me through

I want to be the one that helps you

Just like when my heart needed to mend

Just like when you were my only friend

Now I want to be your shoulder to cry on

When this world is too cruel to shine your light upon

Let me be used as a tool in your hand

To help spread the light back onto the land

Help me to have unconditional love

Like my Father in Heaven above

Help me to be humble and lose my pride

Help me to keep up with your stride

Help me strive to do my best

Lay burdens on me so you can rest

Help me to always have the truth in view

Help me so I can one day be like you

10 Year Reunion

Just here to make an appearance

Forgot how you all are so dense

Fake smiles, cheap glances, delayed advances

Insincere hi’s, taking turns telling lies

Look at me, look at me, see how I’ve matured

Hear about what I’ve endured

Condescending- just pretending that I care

About your past ten years out where?

Shifting positions

Trying to use my inhibitions

Fidgety limbs

A million distracting whims

I don’t want to be here with you

But its obviously the polite thing to do

Its an uncomfortable situation

But I accomplished my mission

Now I gotta find a way out

I still gotta make my rounds

A million others try to catch my sight

One by one I get through the night

Ode to the Ocean

Southern California’s southern summer beaches

Coastlines lined with luminescent sunlight rays

Illuminating the capacious coast of California

Basking on the beach’s brae the waves beckon me in

I sit up, shuffle to the sea, and take a short swim

The tepid waters I tread are far from tranquil

But I keep treading still

The private, peopleless Pacific beach becomes

More alluring because it’s abandoned, arcane, and all mine

Seagulls circle and scope the scintillating cyanic sea

Searching for fish or for any food for that matter

But they fly off finding nothing to their avail

Feeling stress free and fully relaxed

I swim ashore and take a short nap

Basking in the incandescent beams of the midday sun

Dreaming of the days when I was young