Can Love be True?

The My heart needs answers

It's desperate to know about love 

I've searched till I lost my mind 

The answers stayed out of reach

I'd ask the man on the mountain 

But since he is always alone 

How could he know?

Man in all his knowledge 

Has no idea.

It can't be an emotion

Since it has both delight and pain

It can't be a passion

Since it always does what's best

It can't be logical 

Because no one can figure it out

It can't be an instinct 

We abandon all security for it

It can't be obligation 

We could make a contract with anyone

These are things it cannot be

It is very stubborn

It is  inconsiderate

It is untimely

And it tempts us to lie

How can love be the greatest  experience?

Maybe I am asking the wrong question

Can love be true?

Love transcends all reason 

It is higher than passion

Far above emotion and logic

Beyond true and false 

It is tied to our very existence 

Why am I here? 

Am I in love? 

The questions are similar  

We are to love our neighbors

Respecting their existence

But there is that one in a million

Who shares a single existence 

Mirrored images 

Beyond any relationship

Both are amazed by it 

There exists no doubt once discovered

The question is what to do with it.

Here is what love says:

When you are happy 

Know I am pleased

When you are sad

Know that I care

When you celebrate

Tip one for me

You are never alone 

Now that you know

My door is always open 

And so is my heart.

 

Who Could Have Known

They both had restless hearts

Life was passing by

A stirring deep inside

They wanted a reason why

On a morning marked in time

Arrived two searching hearts

Glad to share their lives

But they didn't expect to start

Who could have known 

They'd fall in love 

It wasn't supposed to be

Time couldn't give enough

Desire became a need

We all want a little adventure

Some travel the world to find 

But no place on earth compares

To what goes on between two minds

Everyone passed the blame

But they only wished to see

If dreams could just come true

Is that such a selfish thing? 

Who could have known?

The Note

With high expectation and hope  

There was so much to say 

So I wrote a note

It had highlights of my life

And a few jokes

I waited patiently to listen and tell

Every delightful thing in life

That all is well

I poured a cup of coffee and sat

Excited to delve

But I was assailed and hit instead 

I didn't know what I was doing

This tender heart bled

My smile fell onto the floor

Hope fled

Characterizations so far from the truth 

Delight became reason for war 

But I asked for a truce

Words were snares to hurt 

I gave no excuse

It is hard for a dreamer to comprehend 

love and kindness as destruction. 

I was losing my mind trying to mend

Reality forced itself on me

Yet dreams don't end

I straightened my shoulders and arose

Hope was hiding under the couch

It wasn't lost as I had supposed

But the note with so much delight

was disposed. 

 

Topsy Turvy

Two people are happy 

While two are sad

What a topsy turvy life we have

I wish for a world

With everyone glad

Is it only found in dreams? 

Well skewer me through

For thinking the same

Nothing will die 

Despite all the pain

It Takes More

I won't be one

That causes pain 

I have nothing in me but love

Mine won't be spent

To destroy 

And walk away

For a banal thrill

I hope you understand 

The way I am 

But I am empty 

I can hardly breath

It takes more love

To refrain

I'm not like

Anyone you have known. 

Seeking the Impossible

Make her the queen when you're alone

Keep the flower shop number close to the phone

Say a kind word, how lovely she looks 

Her favorite wine and favorite book

It's easy to show your affection

But how do you fall out of love?

They say giving it distance is the best

But a heart gets anxious and cannot find rest

You can make a demand that cannot be met

Or think up a bad that you cannot forget 

We always give hope to a lover

But how do you fall out of love? 

When the fire has been your home

The world outside is heartless and cold

Your mind always goes to the warmth of the flame

Inside your soul it's never the same

You're seeking the impossible 

When you ask to fall out of love. 

Courage

Two men stood together in arms

Both had their start on a dairy farm

One came to fight another day

The other one fought to be carried away

And the hero's first name was Dave

Everyone knew he was brave

He stood up and he charged 

Making strides that were large 

But his feet ended up in a grave

The cautious man's name was Howard 

Dave thought he fought like a coward

He ducked and he rolled

But still he was bold

Determined his feet would move onward

Thats the good thing about fear

The cautious one Howard's still here 

He had the courage to live a long llife

With no need to be chevalier 

As these two went off to war

Which of them loved life more?

Perfection

A walk through  

The thronging crowds 

Their porcelain cheeks

Looking proud

Dreams of popularity 

Based on expectations

A nod from their peers

Nothing but perfection

How can I find my love

In this sea of cherubs?

But when she walks in

They are put to shame

It isn't in the similarities

But how she is different

Flaws to them 

Are beautiful to me 

It is the same way 

When it comes to souls

There is a perfect standard

But it is in the mistakes

That I find beauty

A wrong word 

A moment of passion

Only make me smile 

True love is the admiration

Of imperfection

 

 

The Best Thoughts

The best thoughts are the deepest

From the infinate depth of our souls

But deep feelings are toughest

Impossible to let go 

When the well of passion is disturbed

Good and bad lose their meaning

Every rule we live by upturned

Nothing to justify the feelings

But we savor them anyways

And the cycle is hard to break

Why should something so good

Be so damn hard to take. 

A Prayer

When there's no person you can talk to

What you say just goes into the air

Alone since no one understands you

Don't dispair

Say a prayer

Whatever your religious persuasion

Feelings  must go somewhere 

There is always a heart to receive them

Don't dispair 

Say a prayer 

Tenderness

They said it was a mere cat

Just an animal, a pet

The dog who happily ran to me

Every day for fifteen years

But they creased my soul 

With welcomed familiarity

Their loss brought a tear

It's not that they are human

I won't  resort to caricatures

But once loved, they endure 

Don't despise those who are tender

Toward any living thing

Lives that creased my soul deeply

Welcome and familiar people

Not all are still around 

I have cried for them 

Mentors and those I mentor 

Find a place in my heart

Close and distant friends 

I won't accept caricatures

They are vibrant and alive

Never apologize

Nor try to justify

Tenderness   

 

 

Unfinished

All life can present is

Unfinished poems 

Unfinished songs

Unfinished dreams

Unfinished stories 

We're given the joy

of completion 

Milkweed

While lying in the grass, dreaming

I felt a gentle breeze

A milkweed silk floated by 

Suddenly I was aloft too

And someone had joined me

In white painter pants

We skipped along alfalfa tops 

That quickly gave way 

To a pond and Lilly pad flowers

A turtle stretched his neck to see

And a frog just missed us with his tongue

We laughed at how silly it had become

It was the perfect date 

We drifted higher into the trees

By a nest of hungry baby birds 

Droplets of water fell from the leaves

And we dodged them by leaning together

Then we passed through familiar gardens 

Our miniature view brought out beauty 

Exceeding all we could ever ask for. 

But the dream had to end

As we lighted onto a porch 

Where the fun started 

We smiled at each other 

And said ... goodnight.  

What I Ought

I ought to turn away

The words are in the air

But every way I turn 

I see you standing there

As unlikely as it seems

And careless I must be

My thoughts just go on back

I cannot get them free

With every ounce of strength

I try to keep it cool

Everything I do

Makes me look a fool