Passion

Passion
Playing, laughing,
And coming to hear,
Sounds in the darkness,
Sweet to my ear.
Intimate portraits
Of friends oh so near.
Never ending love.

Happy Birthday

I remembered today was your birthday
I thought on love that is lost
But without an equaling measure
How would we know true love's true cost?
That sweet ache that tells us we're living
That pain that makes breathing so hard
Cured only by physical presence
Cuts through my heart like jagged shards
So while you celebrate your birthday
While you party with family and friends
Blow out one candle for me, dear
The girl whose heart now mends

Façade

Façade

We choose the face we show the world

And lose our grace as truth is hurled

Flung far and wide as others take

All our lives we live as fake

The price of love is what you pay

As all your friends you will betray

So we give up goodness sake

As our lives we live as fake

In the end the lie is real

As we forget how others feel

Then another heart will break

As all our lives we live as fake

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Plea Bargain

Plea Bargain

Call me back to a brighter day

When time was a number not a sentence

Flowers still bloomed under a blistering sun

Children ran carefree through the streets

What happened to happier times?

To heartier laughter and friends?

Hedonistic summers wasted

Lounging in the twilight

Soft notes lost on the breeze

As we sat strumming guitars in the sunset

Can you remember those long gone hours?

If I close my eyes I can taste the charcoal

I am there with you

That’s all that matters

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Priorities

When with friends we smile and say

Forget the work and cease the day

We need love to guide the way

So call in sick or stay away

Before, with stress, you fade away

So with friends we smile and stay

Tomorrow’s work will go away

If you doubt it, then look away

You need a love to guide your way

Can you question what I say,

That priorities have gone to hay?

When with friends we smile say,

We no longer need love to guide the way!

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Make Believe

I live in a world of make believe

Where the rally cry is thus

It will never be! It will never be!

But in our land of make believe

All things are possible

Fantasy is the only rule

It will never be! It will never be!

We call ourselves the best of friends

Our words are swords in our hands

There is travel to faraway lands

We make loud protesting stands

It will never be! It will never be!

Painted wings fall apart eventually

There is no more Honalee

No one will ever truly be free

As long as it will never be, never be!

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The Spectre at the Feast

That one person no one notices

The one you care about the least

Haven’t you always noticed

There’s always a spectre at the feast

The one with the saddest eyes

The one hidden in plain sight

Casually greeting everyone

Seeming ready to flee at first fright

Can’t you just picture it?

The growing terror and dread

No one else knowing the panic

That exists only inside your head

Never knowing the right words

Hoping only it ends

Never knowing if you’re talking

To family, enemies or friends

This may all seem dramatic

I’m often called out for flair

But did you ever stop and wonder

If I know because I’ve been there?

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Touch the Infinite, Gravitate to all you can be...

Reach up and touch the Infinite

Gravitate to all you can be

For once be more than just human

You’ll be amazed at the marvels you’ll see

Shells become visions of beauty

There’s a pattern mathematic, precise

They sing with orchestral harmonies

A record will no longer suffice

A snowflake is a thing of wonder

Some say that each one is unique

But I can define its precise shape

By a formula, I guess I’m a geek

But all of these figures and numbers

All wonders and beauties abide

Are nothing without being partaken

By friends, right there, by your side

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Empty Promises, Broken Vow

Empty Promises, Broken Vow

You’ve barely kept your secrets now.

Words are tricky they tend to slip

The world in spinning beyond your grip

When the time is right, Life will change

You can’t stop it from feeling strange

Sonner or later your friends will know

You’ve done your best, but feelings show

One day soon you’ll break the wall

That barrier you’ve built so high,

Is yours to fall with just a sigh

Then run, speed as fast as you can

There is no doubt, you know the plan,

An escape there is, you know it’s true

Life is what you make of it

Make peace and quiet for a bit