"Eye On Me"

I see you looking...

Your warm and curious eyes staring

I wonder?

Just how far can you see into me with your penetrating stare?

Is it only skin deep?

Do you like what you see?

Your eyes wonder...looking, almost searching

What is it that your hoping to find?

Are you looking deeper?

Is it my mind?

Your smile speaks volumes

The sparkle and glimmer upon your face assures me that your finding what you seek

Do I hold what you want?

Have you come to know the true me by just staring deeply?

Have you found my heart beating?

Have you found the exhilarating life force that drives me?

Have I pulled you in?

Or am I willingly surrendering to you?

Your lips part...

Exhaling lightly...

Have I taken your breath away?

Because you've certainly have captured mine

Eye to eye we are locked

Embraced in long moments of time and space

As the world around us drops and melts away into the foreground

Leaving us two lonely star crossed hearts to await each others first move

And the intensities that are contained within them.

© 2011

"Just As You Are"

Deep within the black soft velvet of the night sky

My eyes trace out the stars

One by one single lines are drawn

Bringing together the heavens

Sewing them neatly within my thoughts

Long moments pass spent in reflection
I smile at the simple thoughts of you

Though I have yet to venture on passed the first few steps of hello

I am eager for the chance given

And the chance taken

So, here I am

Ready...

Lets take this next step together

Because all that I need you to be is here

Just as you are.

Published in: "Fire and Light"
Anthology of verse
Poetry Institute of Canada

© 2011

"Stepping Forward"

Sitting alone with my thoughts I reflect upon all the moments

No words are spoken

Not even to myself...

The prison built around me has now crumbled

The cell door has no more lock

My feet can feel the grit upon the path before me

I've taken the first step forward

As some say, the most difficult

I bound forth into my life already in progress

No more tears will be shed into the moonless nights

The waiting has ended

I now choose for me

From the eternal night

I welcome the light

Every never-ending question now becomes slowly answered

The warmth of the sun takes over

And fills up what seemed to be empty for so long

A precious tear escapes the corner of my eye

As the feeling of freedom and comfort begin to set in

For the first time in my life I find myself in complete peace

I close my eyes and concentrate upon the happiness building within

Waves of relief wash over me like a silent summer breeze

What seems like only moments has actually been hours

Steadily, I rebuild the image of me

And who I want to be

Second guessing no longer has a place within me

Though not anywhere near complete...

Ruin has been the road of transformation for me

And no longer will I ever let my thoughts undo me

Because somewhere deep down inside of me I some how knew that I would finally find me

I just simply got a little lost for a while...

And love it or hate it...

I am simply and solemnly...

Me.

© 2011

"Dry Land Drowning"

Tears fall like stones

Strength fades...

As your being tries desperately not to let a slip turn into a fall

Pushed to the brink...

The edge of sanity seems the only home that you know

You've prided yourself on being the best you

Rather than being the pretend of someone else

Yet, an abandonment haunts you still...

The ghost of the person that you use to be

And the hollowed out shell of the person that you are now

All that you want is more than this

To prove yourself wrong

You dare yourself not to do it

But once again, you make yourself out to be a liar...

Forgetting to be responsible for the energy that you put out into the world

Not realizing the irreversible damage done

We all must be careful with the fingers that we point

Because it could put another person on their knee's

Take a moment and simply think one simple thought

So much misery unfortunately already exists between one page of life to the next

Does it really need to be multiplied into more?

Because you don't need water to feel like you are drowning...

© 2001

"Time Given"

Like falling leaves, the years have seemed to slip by

The days have added up and multiplied together

Diminishing the strength in the bond to my life to a tiny thread

One that can barely sew the faded pieces of the past together

In those odd moments when memories tumble back to the fore front of my mind

Its almost as if reviewing a former life I once lived

The crisp image now blurry

Reflections back can barely recall all of the detailed moments

But the few that still remain

I carry within some part of me

Like the sunshine in your smile...

My endless tears washing away your kisses from my cheeks...

The sound of every piece of me breaking complete...

And my entire being not letting my mouth swallow the true truth

Because my heart knew then that the bitter taste of abandonment would be too much to bare or take

So, as it comes to pass another year

I have already long since forgotten to count

I am almost struggling to remember...

Because the hands of time have pushed all beyond me

Along with the lonely days gone by from long ago

Keeping me here

Planted and regrowing new roots to hold me

I've re-built myself from the ground up

Promising myself conviction

Because the problem you had was believing...

We are bound to our choices

But we are not our mistakes

That is why time given to us is so precious

Its those stolen moments that should never go to waste.

© 2011