Dance me, romance me
Attempt to entrance me
I want to be swept off my feet
Woo me, pursue me
With your love imbue me
True love will make my life complete

Wine me and dine me
Let love redefine me
Of history let me be rid
Hold me, enfold me
Let your love remold me
You’ll never regret that you did

I want you to want me the way lovers do
I need you to need me the way I need you

Thrill me, fulfill me
Be lonely until me
And swear that we never will part
Love me, dream of me
Put clear sky above me
The canvas of love is our art

I'd love you to love me with all of your heart
I hope that you hope I will find Cupid's dart

Take me, remake me
Don't ever forsake me
And know I will always be true
Win me, begin me
Know all that is in me
And I will love all that is you

All sad thoughts forever from my mind delete
And then you will make my warm heart skip a beat

Kiss me then miss me
Don’t ever dismiss me
Love all of me right to the core
Weave me, believe me
And don't ever leave me
Then dance me, romance me once more

How quickly
the prickly heat of passion,
constrained by
one gold ring,
absconded;
our wild, forbidden garden
reduced to a
respectable suburban lawn
harboring weeds
of neglect, anthills
of subterranean
resentment.
No more
sybaritic weekends
by the sea. Now,
every Sunday afternoon
you lie snoring on that
dirty beige recliner,
remote
dangling
from pudgy fingers,
while those damn cars
whine in fast, tight circles.
You've beached yourself,
and I am drowning,
out of sight of land,
too weary to
raise
my
hand.

the space at the back of your knees
was always straight; you never bent your
legs and held the air rigorous around them.
compensating for this, your shoulders were forward,
fixing your eyes on a seam in the sidewalk
just a few inches deep but crawling with breath
and some child’s skinned palms

and the gap between your collarbone and rib cage
was a moat. fingers could sink between the lines,
between the countries that made up the map, folding
and unfolding you, and between the rivers of everything
you contemplated as you slept. a smile crept over your spine.

elbows locked around the town, a fist forming the
peak of the hill that everything washed around. you were
the boundaries, the clumsy first kiss behind the school,
the same bricks every time, and nobody is alone. all the
graffiti holds itself in place with memories.

i could tell you were leaving by the way
you said “love” so many times in so few words
and your eyes were already blurred, looking anywhere but here
and the light had moved its way over you, and you wanted to
leave right then, just to separate your body from its tight
and unrelenting binding you had draped yourself in
all those years ago, being in this place.

I have always loved you; I have loved you everywhere,
While amber sunsets dappled orange fire into your hair,
Breathless, kissing in the warmth of Spanish summer's night,
Or huddled against winter's chill, and painted red with candlelight.

Oh, my lover and companion, my soulmate and my muse,
In passion's coils a mistress dressed in gold and high heeled shoes,
In a riot of confetti floating down like autumn leaves,
On a bridal bed of petals - know my dreams were made of these.

With all we shared, and secrets kept, together till the end,
In happy times my lover, now in sorrow be my friend,
Please show me all you feel for me, and just hold me for a while,
Let me know your love in laughter, in a gesture or your smile.

Do you have the will to stay with me, whatever dreams may come?
And know our love was not complete, until we understand it's gone?
I am not afraid of dying, love; be it unjust, or unfair -
I will take my strength from you once more, for I have loved you everywhere.

Life with you is like an old country song
This true love caught us both clean by surprise,
I never figured it would last so long
But I still get weak at the look in your eyes.

The keys on the clicker are worn right off,
Between the game and the romantic mush.
I wipe away tears though my buddies scoff,
you watch tight pants on a thirty yard rush.

When we're old and slow and like to complain
I'll mutter about your awful cooking,
Folks will shrug and say we can't stand the strain
I'll slip you a wink when they ain't looking.

I'll visit you and leave tears on your grave
And whisper I'll join you before too long,
I'll promise to live and love and behave.
Life with you was like an old country song.

You were my secret love.
When I close my eyes,
I can still see you
Sweating as you toil in the field;
Smoldering eyes barely concealed.
Your muscles ripple; your chest bare.
I wonder if you feel my stare.

Each night as I sleep, you haunt my dreams.

You were my secret love.
When I close my eyes,
I can still see you
Laughing as we fall into sin;
Shadows dancing across your skin.
Our naked bodies are entwined,
In candlelight barely defined.

Each night as I sleep, you haunt my dreams.

You were my secret love.
When I close my eyes,
I can still see you
Hanging, your neck crushed by the noose;
Your body shattered by abuse;
Your bloody face and bulging eyes,
Scream to me of a love unwise.

Each night as I sleep, you haunt my dreams.

You were my secret love.
When I close my eyes,
I can still see you...

A creature of the night was he,
As sunlight did retreat,
A secret love not meant to be -
Two hearts as one they beat.

The Raven spreads her midnight wings,
Of lovers doomed she sings.

He held her gently in his arms,
She trembled deep within.
She fell under his icy charms
And alabaster skin.

The Raven spreads her midnight wings,
Of lovers doomed she sings.

Their love in darkened moments stole,
She set his heart aflame.
Her every breath, her heart, her soul -
His dreams he could not tame

The Raven spreads her midnight wings,
Of lovers doomed she sings.

Their deep embrace throughout the night
Entwined both limb and heart,
But at the dawn his pyre burned bright,
This world he did depart.

The Raven spreads her midnight wings,
Of lovers doomed she sings.

If eyes are the windows of the soul,
Your soul smiles like a summer sky,
Cloudless blue with a bright, golden sun,
Bringing warmth to all you touch.

If eyes are the windows of the soul,
Your soul swirls like a coming storm,
Steel blue clouds rolling across the horizon,
Fighting for what you believe.

If eyes are the windows of the soul,
Your soul breaks like a winter sea,
Waves of passion crashing against the shore,
Responding to my embrace.

If eyes are the windows of the soul,
Your soul hides like a shy lover,
Sleeping, waiting for dawn's first blushing light,
Waking at my tender touch.

If eyes are the windows of the soul...

A bountiful year of summers
Fields of gold and silver blooms
Skies of sun no clouds no rain
I long for it again

Silently it came to me
The shadow in my heart
Ebbing tide receding shore
That promised evermore

Oh woe the sea that took the joy
Oh woe the winds that chilled the heart
Oh woe that love could fade so fast

Though ever by my side you are
I drift upon an island still
Bereft of what love would allow
My heart feels nothing now

From where upon I rest my head,
I see her empty pillow creased.
Its concave depths reveal the shape
of the beauty it just released.

Through half closed eyes I watch it rise
and conceal the indented face.
It's as if she was never here,
her impression is soon erased.

But a strand of blonde hair remains,
betraying our night spent so close.
On the table,empty wine glass,
and her already wilting rose.

And a note lays flat once folded,
in pencil my name hand written.
I saw her cry as she wrote it.
Love's tough to deny when smitten.

The hallway wall casts her shadow,
it silently slips from my view.
Soft footsteps lead to locking doors.
Her car starts, then departs - we're through.

I reach to the vacant pillow
and trace the single strand of hair.
Beneath it her tears, barely damp,
soon to dry, then no longer there.

For her I'll cover up our tryst
and tread with thoughtful discretion.
But in my mind and lonely heart,
she's made a lasting impression.