For a Friend

If I could make you happy
If I could make you smile
If I could ease your troubles
If even for a while

If I could lift your burden
When you are feeling blue
In this you can be certain
It is what I would do

For you are quite the person
A tried and true blue friend
And I will stand beside you
Until the bitter end

For I find I'm standing taller
Since I first met you
That you count me as a friend
Is the reason that I do

The Art of Love

I wish that I could make you see
The colors, textures of your love
The richness and the vibrancy
The complex canvas of your love

I wish that I could paint with words
The way artists do with color
I'd draw a portrait of your love
More vibrant than any other

I wish I could somehow express
The way the artists do
I'd paint with words both bold and strong
The way that I love you

Conversations

The other day I spoke with my mother
She said she had just been a dozin
There wasn't a thing to do around home
And the world outside was all frozen

She mentioned she may have been watching
Kinda lazy and not paying attention
A movie she'd seen several times before
She said it was called Fried Green Onions

Now I've loved this woman for all of my life
So it doesn't affect my opinion
To hear she was watching an old favorite film
But not knowing its Tomatoes, not Onions

My Brothers Keeper

I grow weary of the attitudes
Of the multitudes with their
platitudes
Disengaging from the caring
Not responsible for the sharing

The callousness makes me angry
Don't you care that there are hungry
Who are you to say it's not real
Are you hungry for your next meal

To be your brother's keeper's not a
bad thing
This is not about the left or the right wing
This is all about our own humanity
How can it be that you really don't see

Society is failing and has gone wild
When turning its back on even one child
We should all find it quite unnerving
That we think we can decide who is deserving

We've become our own worst nightmare
When we pick and choose when to care
You see "illegal", a child is what I see
Take a good look in the mirror
What do you see

Do you see that you are losing
Your humanity

Homeless

Go home
There's nothing more to be
done here
You should get some rest
Go home they say
As I stand on the edge of my life
looking in
I can't go home
Home is where you are
There is no more home for me
You're here
But you're gone

Sigh for Sigh

In the quiet of the bedroom
In the stillness of the night
I lie awake and listen to
The steady rhythm of your breathing
And my own breath matches yours
Deep and even
Sigh for sigh
Deep and even
Sigh for sigh

Curled around you gently weaving
Limb and limb in loose caress
Silky languid thoughts releasing
All the daytimes useless stress
Time slows down and leaves me dreaming
Sweetly dreaming
Soul at rest
Sweetly dreaming
Soul at rest

Careless

Carelessly caress me
I long for your touch
You carelessly possess me
I love you too much

Endlessly embrace me
I can't tell you no
You endlessly erase me
Where did I go