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GO ON

SAY IT

TRUE MEASURE

ANGIE OH ANGIE

HONEYMOON

INTO MY LIFE

EACH THE OTHER

REUNION

FLOWERS IN A VASE

MEASURE SOUGHT

ONE OF US

FULL CIRCLE

NEWLYWEDS

WITHOUT END

A PIECE OF ME

LEAP OF FAITH

LOVING YOU

I SEE A CURVE

A NEW REALITY

SEPARATED

DAILY CHORE

 

GO ON

 

My love is hurting, I feel pain

            There’s nothing I can do

We are changing, almost unseen

            A death is coming true

 

What is dying has no words

            Cannot be seen or felt

Her trust in me is perishing

            A mortal blow’s been dealt

 

What is, cannot be changed erased

            Cannot be taken back

My every fear is realized

            My sun has gone to black

 

She is my love my very soul

            One half I cannot be

What is within my power

            To help my love to see?

 

That what I do is for us both

            I need her strength for us

Others have imposed their view

            Created quite a fuss

 

We can, we must survive this threat

            If we are to go on

Return again to our deep love

            Before the chance is gone

 

Use the faith we know is there

            The Love that makes us be

Remember clearly all we have

            Give up not ever, we

 

Hold fast to all we know with truth

            How each is breath of life

Defend this fragile being new

            Go on as man and wife

           

 

 

SAY IT

 

Day to day we live our lives

            Rushing to and fro

Important things are left unsaid

            Never the other to know

 

But life needs love as lungs need air

            And words must be begun

Or life will leave before it’s said

            And sadness will have won

 

 

 

TRUE MEASURE

 

Measure not by “used to be”

            But what you are today

Let the future fill your eyes

            With anticipation, play

 

Everyday new we are

            Challenges we must set

Make the most of what you have

            In time the most you’ll get

 

Is what you’ve sown in mind and heart

            True strength is in the soul

Be thankful for the love you have

            And a partner made you whole

 

 

 

ANGIE OH ANGIE

 

Angie oh Angie,

Love of the past

Gave new perspective

            To which I hold fast

 

To take each new day

As it comes on

Live with the truth

            No apologies don

 

Bring to life

Joy and exuberance

Lift all those around you

            With life have a romance

 

Be yourself now

And forever and ever

Do what is necessary

            Stay sharp and stay clever

 

Know your own worth

            Let no one dissuade you

Know you are loved

            By many who view

 

Your caring and sharing

            Your unselfish ways

As signs of the person

            Who does as they say

 

Forever indebted I am your devoted

            Friend of the past, friend of today

The love that I feel is stronger than time

            Or the space that separates, us on the way

 

To lives that are different

            Separated, I pray

For the safety and wellbeing

            Of  yourself every way

 

Though our lives have been

Inextricably wound

Together forever

            In friendship we’ve found

 

 

That each is a mirror

            We hold up with love

Through thick and through thin

            We’ve stayed high above

 

The normal decay

            That  friendships endure

Cause trust and reliance

            Remain steady and pure

 

Our paths will be separate

            New joys will occur

For each of us, futures

Are born of what were

 

The moments in time

            That changed you and me

To what we are now, by life’s fires tempered

            Enriched we’re enabled to separately see

 

That we carry on forward

A piece of what was

In the person we are

            And the things that one does

 

Though time has made changes

            In what is to be

A piece of you always

            Will live inside me

 

Reminding me never to

            Take myself seriously

Or that you could love me

            When I couldn’t see

 

Why anyone would value

            The traits I possessed

Though you never explained

            Why your time you’d invest

 

You left it to me

            To find ten years passed

How much you did love me

            Too late, I knew last

 

 

What ever your reasons

            The time that we had

Was glorious to me

            For each moment I’m glad

 

As you asked long ago in a moment so quiet

“What will you do when I leave” you intoned

I’ll cherish the memories of love and abandon

            The loss I promised I wouldn’t bemoan

 

But fate has upon us invoked a reversal

            A twist in the path we didn’t foresee

The one to be leaving by choice as it is

            Surprised I am finding it is to be me

 

I hope on your life I’ve had an impact

As deep and as positive as you’ve had on mine

I couldn’t have made it to here as I was

            Your love and support metamorphed me with time

 

So on to what’s next for you and for me

            A lifetime ahead to build and design

It’s just the beginning of wondrous adventures

            For each of us future, is part past entwined

 

Each of us is the sum of what was

            A mixture that time and experience wrought

Never forget me as I will not you

            Your part of me always, and the lessons you taught

 

 

 

 

HONEYMOON

 

The wedding day has come and gone

            Festivities are done

The justice said the words she must

            Legally now we’re one

 

We’re off to have a Honeymoon

            Far away Tuscany calls

Places we have never been

            Build history, breakdown walls

 

Create a story of our lives

            Unique for us two

Life as seen through both our eyes

            Enhanced by dual view

 

There is no anxiety for

            Us as we join hands

Just expectation love will stay

            As past, in all new lands

 

Love allows the two of us

            To flow as if we’re one

Where ever in the world we go

            We’re each the other’s sun

 

 

 

INTO MY LIFE

 

Into my life

 One strange October eve

An incognito Angel

Did my eyes come to perceive

 

Of course I didn’t know it then

            An angel was her mien

Or that a figurative freight train

            Would disorient my brain    

 

In a small and simple restaurant

            On the edge of river Thames

I went to have my dinner

            And my loves beginning flames

 

There alone as I sat

            At a table meant for four

The owner brought two women

            Who couldn’t wait a minute more

 

To have a meal, so I they chose

            To share a place to eat

I couldn’t know that early on

            She’d make my life so sweet

 

Once introduced she bought me wine

            Exchanged amenities

Talked about all kinds of things

            Ate dinner, I was pleased

 

Art and sculpture, philosophy

            The subjects kept on running

I’d never talked as much as then

            No guile no line no cunning

 

We talked to the exclusion of

            The friend, silent but present

Attention riveted on each other

            Overcome, sensation pleasant

 

From simple start I’ve come to know

            An envied freedom rare

To be myself entirely

            No anxiety left to bear

 

 

To filter not the things I say

            Just let the words come out

She understands intention

            There is never any doubt

 

We seem to be one soul at times

            Attuned to single purpose

Integrated mentally

            Like aerialists at the circus

 

In truth we’re like each others catcher

            Secure in loves reverie

We form the base from which we let

            The other fly quite free

 

Like a spacewalk in the heavens

            We’re tethered one to one

We are each others safety

            Not an anchor but a sun

 

Like a lighthouse in the night

            Show each other the direction

Though we’re both in constant motion

            There is still confirmed connection

           

Born of friendship strong and trusting

            Our love grew to be immense

The truth is our foundation

            Heartfelt empathy our sense

 

As each new day dawns on us

            Perspective new we see

To each the other seems to be

            The future’s valued key

 

What started as a gentle flame

            Kindled softly by a kiss

Has grown to be much larger force

            Desire’s heat is this

 

We bask in warmth created

By our loves expanding fire

We feel the new excitement as

            Together we go higher

 

Then ever we have gone before

            To each we are a gift

We’ve entered some new place in life

            A paradigm shift

 

We never can, see again 

Life’s view before we met

We can’t go back the way we came

            New perspective now won’t let

 

Intertwined but independent

            We are two but we are one

Endless conversations

            Myriad ways of having fun

 

I am the happiest I’ve ever been

            In many, many years

Life can be extraordinary

            Once purged of certain fears

 

Sides of me I’ve never known

            Emerge to my surprise

Inside my soul another lives

            Whose freedom my love buys

 

Our  spirits play incessantly

            Find ways anew to flirt

Expand the ways we think of things

            Never the other hurt

 

Fastened soul to soul till

Eternity does end

Twisting every time frame

            Relativity upend

 

Science can’t explain

All the things we seem to do

There is a certain energy

            That flows between us two

 

There also is a synergy

            Obtained from She and I

That’s more than each alone can be

            Together we can fly

 

To places far beyond today

            On loves strong wings I say

The possibilities limited

            By only plans that dreams can lay

 

 

 

 

EACH THE OTHER

 

I am betrothed to my beloved

            But we are separated by time and space

Our minds do meet in ether somewhere

            Each day and night, keep up the pace

 

Of constant contact by our voices

            Creating pictures, memories too

So time does not , serve to divide us

            But make more precious, now the view

 

That in our minds lives animated

            Not from the past but present real

As if we see across the miles

            Create a movie from the voices feel

 

From new description and knowledge old

            Of times together spent with feeling

We are together in a way

            Or not apart, our way of dealing

 

With the space that is between us

            For surely we do miss

The closeness and the touching

            The warmness of our lover’s kiss

 

Our love is strong, will always be

            More than just our minds relation

We must be together fully

            Exchange the energy, our own creation

 

We’ve given life to what we feel

            Made vulnerable each, our heart and soul

Trusting each we’ve found in other

            Protector, lover, friend, own role 

 

So meet we do around the globe

            When chance allows some time

Together we pick up the thread

            Of love unbroken, maintained fine

 

Which seems to go on unaffected

            By the spaces we endure

It is as if we’ve never parted

            As we continue our lovers tour

 

 

And think about the time to come

            When space will no longer between us be

When every day we will renew

            From each the other, loves harmony

 

Life’s journey sweeter surely is

            Since we together came to be

Combined our souls invincible are

            This special love makes us both free

 

 

 

REUNION

 

O joy of joys my love is coming

I will be complete tonight

It will take but just a second

            Catch up after each we sight

 

The time between will melt away

            As if it never was

I can’t explain, nor can she

            All we know is that it does

 

The first we touch is like an addict

            Looking for a fix

Urgency drives us forward

            The need to savor slows times ticks

 

There is a kind of tension

            An excitement in the air

We come alive, reborn you see

            Again we are a pair

 

The strength of us together

            Builds up by leaps and bounds

In each the other finds a route

            Their own strength to compound

 

Very quickly we are one again

            Secure in our safe harbor

Enwrapped entwined enmeshed we are

            Our hearts now free to soar

 

The flame of passion burns quite bright

            Lifts us to a higher place

Then simmers on continuously

            Just under surface, keeping (it keeps) pace

 

Like magnets slightly out of reach

            The pull is faint but real

If perchance the space does narrow

            Tremendous force we feel

 

On and on to end of time

            We’ll balance our two forces

The love we feel will keep us dancing

            As through our veins it courses

 

Close or far we are together

            Managing space and time

To Enhance our lives in every way

            Our purposes to align

 

We don’t complain of what we’re not

            Or feelings we can’t salve

But live a life we’ve made sublime

            By giving what we have

 

The precious gifts we give each other

            Are free for all to use

Truth, support, respect and passion

            Build a relationship, can’t lose

 

 

 

FLOWERS IN A VASE

 

Dying flowers in a vase

            Kept beyond their time

Remnants of a loving message

            Gave their lives in service fine

 

Stronger scent as life is ebbing

Then in life they had before

Servants of a loves devotion

            Sacrificed to love, amour

 

Picked for beauty, carry thought

            Love’s forevermore

For highest honor they’ve been chosen

            Soldiers in a noble war

 

Life and death go on and on

            It is a natural thing

The flower dies so love can live

            It is an endless ring

 

And when loves life shall be over

            And sleep within the earth

New beauty to behold will come

            As flowers, love gives birth

 

 

 

MEASURE SOUGHT

 

What is the measure of a man

            Or a woman if you can?

What is the quality of two souls,

            That makes the parts more as a whole?

What lifts us up on gossamer wing?

            What eases for us every sting?

What gives us strength when we are weak?

What moves us on, new things to seek?

What makes us share when we could keep?

            What takes the grief when we must weep?

What makes us sing though sky is dark?

            Or feel we’re blessed to hear a lark?

What makes us reach to touch another?

            Though they are not, by blood a brother

What makes the morning joy to see?

            What makes us happy just to be?

What makes each moment gift, surprise?

            What makes us dream of next sunrise?

What makes us look ahead not back?

            Certain that the futures tack

Will be a wonder, take us where

            In past our dreams not ever dared

What makes us know we will attain?

            What gives us vision will not wane?

What makes us cling to, Oh so tightly

            Things that others take so lightly?

In “Simple” we can find the best

            No matter should we pay the rest

If we are comfortable in our skin

            Consider all our next of kin

Live without an ego great

            Make our passion another’s fate

Go beyond our personal need

            Fill another’s plate to feed

Tend the heart and the soul

            Of another as our goal

Then we’ll find the measure sought

            Of human value, never bought

It is the deep capacity of

            Giving and receiving love.

           

 

 

 

ONE OF US

 

It is for sure that one of us

            Will go before the other

How then are we to handle this?

            We’re friend and we are lover

 

If it is me that must take leave

            Don’t fret or grieve my fate

For I will have our history

            In peace relive, collate

 

Every single minute was

            A gem, a gift of beauty

Ten thousand years to contemplate

            Couldn’t fail in me my duty

 

To hold on fast to what I have

            Life or death my future coming

We built a bond will last no doubt

            Tenaciously we’ll cling

 

To each the other far or near

            In life or in hereafter

If I am first I’ll wait for you

            Your life I’ll fill with laughter

 

But if I should be, left behind

            And you to heaven go

I’ll live each day with memories

            Of joys you made me know

 

I never give a single thought

            If I can pass the test

I am forever imbued with love

            You put within my breast

 

As we have learned it’s not the time

            Or space for us that matters

What e’er transpires we are together

            Life’s boundaries we will shatter

           

 

 

FULL CIRCLE

 

If you and I are one

            And this is how are we

Then loving you it seems, means

That I am loving me

 

This is not a silly thought

            Or conundrum speculate

In devotion to your love I find

Myself to contemplate

 

In transcending my own being

            To be lost inside of you

I come full circle home again

            Myself I am to view

 

And I have come this point in life

            To know of what I’m made

I rather like the skin I wear

            My essence I won’t trade

 

In things important to me now

            I define myself as good

My world expands at lighting speed

            Brings my mind sufficient food

 

Every moment is adventure though

Some are dark and scare

It tells me I’m alive and well

            I’m blessed with gifts so rare

 

That came to me unasked for

            From a freedom born of love

I am much more I was before

            Old restraints I rise above   

 

Unlimited are the goals that I

May choose or may decline

Inside a voice unerring speaks

With wisdom newly mine

 

A confidence enabled by

            Vanquishing alone

Accomplished by combining two

Souls their lives outgrown   

 

 

That met quiet accidentally

            Or was it really so?

Perhaps it was some grander scheme

            For reasons we can’t know

 

But in that meeting universes

            Collided smashing all

That went before, beyond repair

            Creation new to call

 

Like a world that’s born in heaven 

            We coagulated firm

Two bodies burning brightly

            Eternity our term

 

A balanced living universe

            Whirling on its way

Two stars in opposition

            To live, this way must stay

 

Separate individuals we

Appear as one soul bright

Together we have all we need

            Together it feels right

           

 

 

NEWLYWEDS

 

The newlyweds crossed the sea

            To see what they could see

Found themselves at home again

            Happy just to be

 

Instead of learning to be one

            Which already had come true

They came to have a life before

            The one they started new

 

A thousand years had come and gone

            Before they did return

A dozen lifetimes flickered past

            For each they felt concern

 

They came to have a history

            Longer then their years

Throughout all time their lot will be

            If one should call, the other hears.

 

 

 

WITHOUT END

 

A touch upon my shoulder or

            Your hand within my hand

Your hip against my hip, gentle

            Pressure as we stand

 

A foot draped over mine sleeping

            Soundly in the bed

The peaceful lay of curls falling

            All around your head

 

The myriad ways we touch as

            Our daily lives we lead

The nourishment of love with which

            Our souls we gladly feed

 

I’m overcome with joy as

            You fill my every need

Eager for the next while

            Enjoying last received

 

We have melded into one new

            Container filled with life

Two spirits live and flourish newly

Made man and wife

 

We touch when we are talking using

            Eyes or mouth or ear

We open up ourselves, give

            Completely without fear

 

Our lives are made a dance, choreo-

graphed by intuition

There are no rules except our own

            Not bound by mere tradition

 

Contact as shallow as the skin

            Or deep the soul, we strive

To use whatever means we have

            To keep the touch alive

 

We are connected strong by

            Our need and our desire

Each supplies the fuel for

The others glorious fire

 

We’re reaching, stretching, looking, seeing

            Touching, feeling, knowing

Learning, having, giving, finding

            Loving and bestowing

 

Listening, telling, holding, being

            Endless messages we send

Like a diamond in the sunlight, our love

Is brilliant without end

 

 

 

A PIECE OF ME

 

Every day a month or more

            Together faced each day in store

Woke each morning, slept each night

            Securely with our loves delight

 

You went North and I went West

            Each to heed our work’s behest

This is how we must live

            More the best, each to give

 

Build a future working now

            Come together, we’ll plan how

What was easily done before

            Brings much pain when we adore

 

Oh the emptiness I feel within

            Missed aroma of your skin

We are separated for a while

            Only contact phone and dial

 

I reach for you in the night

            You’re not found in my sight

My body aches to feel your touch

            At least two weeks ‘till I have such

 

A piece of me is missing now

            I function but, not right somehow

Once a part of me you are

            Forever part, though miles are far

 

 

 

LEAP OF FAITH

 

Is he mine or is he his?

            Can the two by side exist?

He gives no reason him to doubt

            Why this worry long persist?

 

Is it rule or exception lives

            Within the heart this man I kiss?

Am I fool to trust again?

            Seek for me loves lifting bliss

 

Can I fly on wings imagined?

            Built of his support, rapport

Or is it love that I’ve imagined?

            Am I to crash back to the floor?

 

The answers are not to be read

            In any book that I can see

But in my heart I fly so high

            None but love could make it be

 

If there is one chance in ten million

            This is real, my destiny

I should not pass the chance to know

            Unbridles joy, dreamt fantasy

 

I cannot make the dream come real

            Without belief, without the feel

That love is mine for all of time

            Inside myself the worry heal

 

The past must be another life

            Whose rules today do not apply

Forge I must a new foundation

            On loves light I will rely

 

Over the precipice of might

            The balance of my life awaits

In trust my love has gone before

            My turn to join him, accept loves fate

 

 

 

LOVING YOU

 

You hold my essence in your hands

            Feel my passion grow

I kiss your softness everywhere

            Enjoy the loving slow

 

I feel your breathing through my palm

            Or breast pressed tight on mine

Every movement that you make

            Yields new thrills divine

 

You stroke my shoulder bite my hair

            Find new ways to tease

Every byway we explore

            Brings new way to please

 

Sometimes the warmth crosses over

            As if we’re just one flesh

Sometimes I feel as if we’re one

            Every part of us does mesh

 

I cannot always tell the place

            I end and you begin

I often feel the hurried beat

            Of your heart through my skin

 

We use what ever is at hand

            To love each other fair

A forearm or a cheek, even

            Softly flowing hair

 

The back my little finger on

            The outline of your ear

My thigh pressed lightly ‘tween yours

            Anticipation of what’s near

 

The normal stretched to last much longer

            Slow to agonize

An arm becomes a hand’s extension

            Long caresses realized

 

You rub my back so lovingly

            Using hands that care

Changing to a silk caress

            With your softness bare

 

I hold you still within my hands

            Your softness firms, demands

Rising hard and caught between

            A feeling that is grand

 

Movement is just barely felt

            Hand and heart concur

Merge the line twixt in and out

            Which is which does blur

 

And sometimes when your lightly touched

            For more than just a while   

Sensation greatly heightened comes

            Needs pressure to beguile

 

Endlessly we toy and play

            Discover feelings new

Up and down the mountains of

            Emotion pure and true

 

Occasionally we reach the top

            Result not of some plan

A simple case of feelings found

            And emotions that outran

 

Sometimes when we are at the top

            Merged in flesh and spirit

Each is master of two bodies

            Of which we are considerate

 

Best of all I love the sounds

            You make when passion flares

Cries and shouts of ecstasy

            In joy you do declare

 

Arching back, fingers on

            The edge of skythrust breast

Constant movement writhe and stretch

            But never come to rest

 

Until that final moment when

            Passion has control

The torrent is too much to bear

            Love you do extol

 

In a quiet kind of agony

            You fold up like a flower

Feel the warmth wash over you

            Surrender to the power

 

And I am at the center of

            Unbridled passion given

My every pore cries out to me

            For this we both have striven

 

On and on we roll and turn

            Examine each new gift

Each minute flows into the next

            Time escapes in torrent swift

 

Until we lie exhausted on

            The plain of lovers’ bliss

Giving and receiving words

            Of love, sealed with a kiss

 

 

 

I SEE A CURVE

 

I see a curve, a pleasant smile

            A face with soul ingrained

A conversation draws me in

            For a moment I’m sustained

 

But then for sure some other thing

            Will occupy my mind

Her sensuality comes across

            In my thoughts my love I find

 

There is no other holds my heart

            For long, as I will tell

My love in truth is part of me

            With pride it makes me swell

 

She is the engine gets me here

            Or there as I may choose

No accomplishment is mine alone

            So pride I won’t effuse

 

And if I seem to be attractive

            To ladies of all kind

It is because I’m part of something

            I believe in, they do find

 

The very thing that makes them want

            Is that which I can’t give 

Self assurance, honesty

            From love I breathe and live

 

My self does not alone exist

            My essence can’t transfer

A product of the two of us

            One half I can’t confer

 

Were I to give myself to play

            With each new curve so sweet

I’d be a different person then

            Their goal I would defeat

 

I’m half a mirror half my own

            Combined in special way

Replace the one reflected, then

            What be I? Who can say

 

I’ll stay the person I am now

            The best I’ve ever been

My love provides the curves I need

            No trophies need I win 

 

 

 

A NEW REALITY

 

In the shallows of my mind

            Where mist hangs low and thick

Memories of other loves

            Are disappearing quick

 

History and thoughts remain

            But fade to black and white

Eclipsed by passion, love and joy

            My present love’s delight

 

It seems we know each other since

            A time before we met

The beauty of our love fills us

            New reality is set

 

All else pales in new loves light

            Bliss does us surround

Friendship is the root on which

            We build this time around

 

Never will there be a time

            This love will fade and crack

Strong foundation tested true

            No mortar does it lack

 

Every day we build anew

            A broader base on which

To rest our growing house of love

            Withstand storms life does pitch

 

Learn about each other, broaden

            Vastly our own scope

Be more of who we are at core

            Give reason we should hope

 

Bring to love all we are

            And all we dream to be

Help each other build the road

            To dreams we each must see

 

Weave our essence into cloth

            We wear to armor us

Protect us from the million things

            Defeat most lovers trust

 

Look at life and at each other

            From constant changing view

Endless facets to discover

            Fall in love anew

 

 

SEPARATED

 

Morning breaking sun is shining

            Glorious day for most

My love and I are separated

            One East and one West coast

 

I miss the feeling of her presence

            The light good morning kiss

It is our lot our lives be tested

            For a time we’ll live like this

 

We’re married only for a month

            Made love on foreign soil

Opened every day with passion

            At work we did not toil

 

Some would say the Honeymoon’s over

            But we would rather not

It simply takes another form

            Our love remains quite hot

 

It’s only space that interferes

            All else is normal, fine

It heightens all our other senses

            Like the breathing of a wine

 

Accommodate we always do

            Mold our love to life

We find a way to benefit

            Wont let a change cause strife

 

We weather every storm that blows

            Across us as we sail

Secure that in the love we’ve built

            Our oneness will prevail

 

 

 

DAILY CHORE

 

Talk it up, let it out

Laugh and cry, scream and shout  

Beg and plead, make your case

Take it slow, it’s not a race

Do what works, give respect

Don’t give up if can’t accept

Show your strength, belief in love

The referee is high above

All is fair in love and war

Except a lie, which yields the door

Give not up your only self

To be left, on a shelf

Be a part, it has to be

Love requires both be free

Sacrifice not one iota

Both must give their total quota

Happiness is not a gift

Result of work, both to lift

Roles submerged to common cause

Not a day afford to pause

Every day a newfound joy

Used to build, your love employ

Don’t let go until it’s right

Keep the goal clear in sight

Winning’s not the final place

But grace within a loved one’s face

Each is keeper of the other

As if they were both father, mother

Love means both responsible for

Whatever life has in store

Surrender not to fear unknown

Harvest love your seeds have sown

Like the soil in your garden

Fertile ground will surely harden

If not cared for tenderly…

 

Love won’t grow there, strong for thee