promise of a mermaid dance
You took a chance
On my cocky stance
And listened to my primal crow
As the first girl in my midnight cave
Invited to live with me underground
You mended my shirts
Of the holes from my play
You dealt with my Lost Boys
And the way we didn’t care
I never wanted you to forget your life, Wendy
That was Neverland and not me
To die would be a great adventure
But what I fear most is loosing you
That’s why
This silly boy tried to teach you to fly
Just so you could go home to an open window
Camelot Lost
I never thought I would fail
In my quest to be king
But even Arthur lost the grail
And peace could not bring
Hail to the king, The Once and Future
Leader of the Round Table of Knights
Heal my wounds with bandage and suture
Pray for the strength to carry on the fight.
The Pattern
Behind me I leave
A path of wonderful women
And a wake of pain
That bares testimony to how human I can be
Are rebirths supposed
To be this rapid?
How often must I rebuild
Before I can settle in
You all have taught me:
Don’t ever promise not to leave
I am so very human, I am flawed
How very deeply I can feel pain
How even my will can be suspended
How sometimes, I am just not enough
I have fond a pattern
Next time, it is my turn
Lost on the Wind
You made me a man with nothing to loose
I can go and leave nothing behind
It’s not the way I would choose
No ties that bind, just too much on my mind
Just some clothes and personal baggage
Walking down a deserted street
Telling myself that I can manage
Counting down to my next heart beat
The only thing planned is the next breath
Letting life take me on its flow
Heaven knows that I don’t do death
I’ll tell you where I am when I know
Don’t ask me for directions yet
Because I haven’t gotten there
But it’s a safe bet
That I’ll do it with flare
Give Me a Girl
Give me a girl with flip flops she can kick
off her feet so her toes can wiggle in the sand.
Give me a girl that wears cargo pants with pockets
all over so she can keep the little and simple things close to her.
Give me a girl in a tank top that shows the curve of her neck
and leaves the sweep of her shoulders bare for soft kisses.
Give me a girl with a smile that comes easy to her lips,
but still makes me work for the pleasure of it.
Give me a girl with eyes that blaze like the sun
or reflect like the moon with equal ease.
Eyes that will shine from the rocks to always guide me home.
Give me a girl with a true heart and a playful soul.
Give me this girl so I can give her me.
I will give her me as best I know how.
With an honest heart and a soul that knows how to fly.
I will give her me with eyes that seek the light in the dark,
and always find the way back to the shore.
Portals that let her read the inside of me.
I will give her me with the want to turn up the corners of her mouth
and the drive to keep her laughing into the night.
I will give her me in the silver on my chest;
for all that I have been and all that I will be.
I will give her me with my hands held open
to use in our play and in our love, to hold her tight.
I will give her me with my feet bare so that I never loose touch
with the ground that we build our world on.
Give me this girl, so I can give her me.
Give me this girl, so I can give her me.
A God’s First Smile
When the history of man was first committed to the page, it was written that she was the direct product of God’s first smile. As it turns out, that is a horrible falsity. God’s first smile was a direct product of His first viewing of her essence.
What is Between
I am not a knight in shining armor,
And you are certainly not a maiden in distress,
But there is this dragon between us
And I think it’s time that we laid it to rest.
Salvage
“This is what’s left of me.” He said holding up his cupped hands for her to see. Cradled in the palms of his hands were tangled pieces of meat, some bits of bone, and an odd glittering matter spread through out. “It’s not much, but you are welcome to it.” His eyes closed and he smiled gently as she pushed a glittering bit about with one slender finger. She had cornered it between the knuckle of his thumb and a bit of bone.
“Perhaps,” she said, “we can save most of this.”
“Perhaps,” he answered, but the single tear gave away the lie that he really didn’t think so.
The Corporate Blues
Walked in late today
Saw that it was casual Friday
took off my tie, undid my collar
left my pants on so the boss wouldn't holler
I’ve got the corporate blues
walking in worn out black shoes.
Breathing in and out with heavy sighs,
bags like marbles under my eyes
If I’m lucky there will be a fire drill,
then I could go outside for a brief thrill.
Or maybe the servers will crash
and I can sit and do nothing while I earn my cash
There are files and folders piled all around me,
stacked up like the Berlin Wall ironically,
a no mans land as far as the eye can see.
I try to recycle the rejects in hopes of saving a tree
There is a jam in the copy machine
and when I fix it, my hands won't come out clean.
Oh I’ve got the blues of the corporate variety
I can't read my book in front of clients of notoriety
There’s a watch dog that reads all of my e-mail.
If I sell of the company secrets I’ll go to jail.
The 20th floor doesn't even have a view
but the sun light teases from the window when it comes through.
Well, I don't get much sleep and I don't eat much more.
In the morning I shower and stumble out the door.
I just tell myself I am doing it all for you
and that is how I deal with my corporate blues.
Warder
I’ve sworn my oaths to see this through to the end
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Under fire and under steel I am sworn not to bend
But I’ve taken wounds and I’ve lost a lot of blood
I am staring up at the sky broken in this pool of mud
She is out there somewhere in the midst of this
Dodging the best she can Death’s Kiss
But it is my sworn duty to keep her safe
Even now the bond does not chafe
I have to make it to my knees, that is the goal
It is going to take every thing I’ve got to crawl out of this hole
This pain is blinding me; I need to focus on one action at a time
They want to take her life, but they will instead take mine
I do not have the strength to get her out of here
But I will die trying to get her into the clear
In the face of danger there has never been a woman braver
When she needs me the most my will shouldn’t waver
My right thigh is broken, and my ribs are bent the wrong way
I need to pick up my three feet of steel from where it lay
Knuckles gripped white on the hilt; lift it up no matter the price
No time for an honorable salute, just parry, feint, and the final slice
Light give me the strength to cut a path through this melee
She can not afford to have me delay
I catch the sight of her as another arrow takes me in the shoulder
I stumble toward her, my feet feeling weighed down by boulders
There, I have her in my arms and lifted to that bleeding shoulder
Carrying her out will be my last act as my blood runs colder
We make it to the edge of this battle; and I fall to my knees
That’s it, blackness, and I know what the wheel weaves
Study in Alteration
Phoenix fire flashes from feathered feet for forgotten forest phantom fears
Tipping together tired tormented tethered toads toward tortured tears
While whistling wombats wonder what wanders without worry
Behind bucktoothed beavers behaving badly back-flipping beyond being blurry
Hurricane Brandie
We were three weeks
Out of Bombard Sound
When the man in the crows nest yelled
“We are hurricane Brandie Bound!”
Give me full sail
And keep the life boats handy
The buckets ready to bail
Because we’re plowing into hurricane Brandie
Real
I didn’t have the heart to tell her
That I’m not the man that she thought I was
That I am barely as fast as I claim to be
And only strong because I pretend that it is so
I’m not the hero that I wanted to be
And the difference from me and the villains are unclear
I haven’t changed this world a smidge of how I say
And my words do not dent the course of events
What would she say if she knew the weakness?
If she knew the pain that I wrap around my heart to make it beat
How will I stand on my last days knowing that I deceived everyone but myself?
The wind blows and I am not supposed to be cold, but I