Giving

I know there are those who think me fool
naïve and all too trusting
I don't deny they may be right

Yet, when walking on the avenue
I am asked to lend a hand
I find it hard to turn away

I suppose there are those
who take advantage
who don't really need help

But I cant tell the difference
between someone who says
they are hungry
and someone who really is
hungry

I do what I do, for me
not for them
So I can live with myself

Love me

Come to me when the lights are low
When time slows down
and favors lovers
Say you will stay and be my love
For I will have no others

Lay with me now and calm my fears
Our love will last forever
Bring all you are, as I will
our joy is to be together

Welcome me home with sweet embrace
Tell me you're mine and smile
Wrap me in soft contented bliss
Steal breath and sigh with melting kiss
This is what we were made for

Journey Home

I want to go home
to the place where I was safe
from life's cruel taunts
where I was sure of my place and
how much I belonged
I want to go home

I long to be home
to open a door into a calming space
where love is the norm
and angry words aren't welcome
where I am greeted with smiles
I long to be home

I need to go home
to the place that replenishes
my very soul
to the place that makes me whole
to the people who I know will always
welcome me home

Essential

She's essential to my life
The insights that she brings to me
The quiet love she sings to me
Are wondrous treasures every one
Her generous ways abound

She's essential to my happiness
The way I feel when I'm with her
Love spending all my time with her
Wrapped in her love I am at home
She is my heart and haven

I am Mighty

Don't underestimate me
Do not think you know me
Through and through

Or that my tears mean
I am fragile
Or weak
They do not
I am not

I care strongly
I love deeply
I have been through
Difficult times
And wondrous adventures

I Am Mighty
I know this to be true
Love will do that for you
Besides
My mom  told me
And she never lies

Like a thief

Like a thief
He comes to steal my sadness
Gently stroking my lashes
Brushing away all my tears
And cares

Like a thief
He comes to steal my heart
And by doing so
He gently steers me
Toward our future

Consequences

I'm hiding
Oh, I look the same
I appear to be here
Going on with daily living
as we do every day
but inside of me I am hiding
Hiding my emotions away
Nothing will hurt me today

I'm hiding
the pain that's stealing my breath
So, you'd never guess
the concentration it takes
to put on this show
So no one suspects
How shaken I'm feeling
So no one will know
My senses still reeling

I'm afraid and I'm angry
and feeling ashamed
I'm not more supportive
I know you're in pain
I know you can't stop this
I know it's not you
But the things you are doing
What you're putting us through
It's breaking our hearts
and it's breaking you, too

What were you thinking
Were you thinking at all
These are the questions
that run through my head
When I think how you thought
You'd be better off dead
Put an end to your misery
And ours just begins
If you had succeeded
then none of us wins

I know that I'm selfish
I still want you near
Please try to stay with us
We all want you here
There are consequences
to every act
Please
I don't want to bury you