The years never exposed
A secret concealed
Affections hidden
A love forbidden
You didn’t know
You never knew
I never minded
Living in your shadow♥

What do I see?

When I look into your eyes
I see your soul
When I look at your lips
I see love unfold
When a broken heart appears
I see your tears
When I look at your hair
I see little curls
When I look at your face
I see a little girl
When I look at what you’ve become
I see a woman♥

The darkness of the night
Covers the blue of the day
When love becomes
A tragic play

The flower that lives today
Is gone tomorrow
Happiness returns to sorrow
Love is permanent
Or only borrowed

The sweetness of the music
Has now been stilled
The song of love once so vibrant
Has died
Bringing with it a deep reminder of
Life’s reality
That
For every “A” side
There is a “B” side

I never recognized the costume
I never saw the mask
A clever disguise
Hidden from sight
Blinded my eyes

A false showing
A false pretense
A party
A charade
Never thinking I was part of
The masquerade

Love is like a circus
As high as a wire
As sweet as cotton candy
As innocent as a child
As moving as a parade
A carnival of romance
Until the final act ends
The performance

When the masquerade crumbled down
I became the biggest clown of all

I’m back where I started
Alone with my thoughts
How can it be
That love runs so deep?
So deeply hidden inside
Where only love can abide
Love takes control and won’t let go
You don’t ask for it
You can’t stop it
It captures your  being as history has shown
It tears at the heart
It bites to the bone
It’s impossible to touch it
You can’t capture its essence
Sometimes its fleeting a wink of an eye
Sometimes it lingers leaving only a why
It causes hurt
It causes pain
Poets write of it
Love songs tell of it
Imaginations hold on to it
Embedded in the soul
A lover’s refrain
When it arrives no longer hidden
A love locked inside no longer forbidden
It reaches the heart carefully seeding
Watered with tears its growth exceeding
It blossoms
It flowers
It explodes into view
It shouts from the mountain tops
It echoes cross the valleys
One it arrives it never stops
Leaping!
Rushing!
Sudden sallies!
Words can never describe it
Do not attempt to try
For life is empty without it
Yet, no one can tell you why♥
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“Who is wise in love,
Love must,
Say least”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)

There’s a song (only one)
That keeps the memory alive
That keeps two hearts connected
Though time has forgotten
Love always remembers
The song that keeps love alive
When hopes and dreams have died
A song for its time
Bonded two lives together
Time has etched its melody in the heart
Though love may never meet again
And life unfolds in different directions
The melody plays out until it’s no longer heard
Two lives met
One simple regret
“And I still can hear( it) through my tears”
It plays within me yet♥
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“Heard melodies are sweet,
But those unheard are sweeter”
John Keats
(1797-1821)

Hopeless is love
When the future is dark
Young turns to old
When thoughts have flown

Stillness is forever
The past crouches…
Mine becomes never
A useless endeavor

The fool remains silent
Lets the darkness define
Never letting in the light
Into the dark corners of the mind

One plus one
Equals none
Having it all
Is never the call

If you let it begin
Light creeps in
Waiting its turn
Once you learn
To control the darkness
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A Dream
“In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of love departed.
But a waking dreams of love and light
has left me broken hearted.”
Poe

From the start
I battled your heart
You walked down the aisle
With such dignity and style
You stood tall
Through it all

You were my guide
You’d provide
All the while
With a gentle smile

Through the years
Filled with happiness and tears
My life was better
When we were together

Now that you have fallen asleep
My memories run deep
My love never wavered
Your love I favored

But you never knew
that I knew
Right from the start
I would always take second place
In your heart♥

The seasons slip away
With so much to say
We talk with words
Never heard
We meet
But nothing is ever complete
We look but never see
Behind the meaning to be
With pride as our guide
We shut our eyes
and gently slip aside
Until the time has died

After the hymns have been sung
After the closing bell has been wrong
After everything has been said
While you gaze as I lie
Will you kiss me good-bye?♥

A song of love
Written for two
Composed by the heart
Its lyrics forever true

You were my song
You were my lyrics
You were my melody
We walked in harmony

Like no other
A lover’s refrain
Time moves on
Nothing remains

A life in duet
I shall never forget
As closing descends
Everything ends
On a voice
I shall never hear again

With yesterday’s song
Is where I belong
But yesterday’s gone
And all I have left
Is a song♥
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“The sweetest songs  are those
That tell of  saddest thoughts”
Percy Shelly
(1792-1822)