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They claim the mysteries of the heart are pure
But here, alone, I’m not so sure

My mind drifts loosely in the sleepless night
While moths dance joyous in the firelight

My soul feels empty and incomplete
Comfortable misery in metaphoric sleet

And my heart which beats here in my chest
Feels melancholy and has done it’s best

To understand the mysteries of true love
The darkened flight of passion’s dove

And I never, ever found the truth
Love struck too soon within my youth

Its mysteries all to me were lost
In youth’s folly, love’s the cost

I paid the price, now I can say
I’d give my life for another way

To solve the mysteries, know true love again
I hold her picture, remember when
A time, I wish I could go back, to then.

9-6-1998

You say you want to be needed
By a soul who’s gone astray
My heart is aching for your touch now
Won’t you come my way?

You say you need to feel adored
I bow on bended knee
My lips kiss your hand with tenderness
I love you, can’t you see?

My heart beats only for you
You say you’re missing love
What must I do to show you
You’re my one and only Ladylove?

The rain is falling on me
You say you miss the clouds
An intensity of passion roars inside my heart
Can’t you hear, it is so loud!

You say you can remember
When our love was pure and fine
Come back and you can live again
I’ll say I’m yours, just say you’re mine.

9-8-1998

I’m looking for a deeper meaning
Something more than I alone can see
A rushing sense of emotion,
A warmth of you washing over me

I touch the stars out past the clouds you see
I reach inside and find a place that’s in need
Your hand on mine elicits feelings and
I sense your power flow through me

Above the world on the mountain where I stand
I see forever beyond the sea
Open your eyes now, won’t you?
Take my hand and come close to me

I’m looking for a deeper meaning
A deeper vision of all that can be
When I look into your soul and feel your heart
Something happens, darling can’t you see?

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Wading in the sea
Fading emotionally
Reaching inward slowly
A gaze inside I cannot see

Wading in the ocean
Fading my emotion
Reaching in with no commotion
A reflection of a haunting notion

Wading in my heart
Fading from a fire-start
Reaching outward to depart
A half without my counterpart

Wading in darkness
Fading from the starkness
Reaching to hear the harkness
Aching from apartness

Standing on a mountain
Looking ‘cross the cloudy sea
Seeing nothing in the distance
And just of Love, a memory.

9-6-1998

I am changing
Growing, becoming still more
A form which is spiritually blurry
As it becomes that which I live for

A path’s an inadequate descriptive
To describe this journey I’m on
A trail’s a little too vague
To show what’s coming, what’s gone

A voyage in the sea could never be so deep
A flight across the stars is not so high
As the flowing river that is me
A living answer to the question “why?”

Flaring like the stars above me
Coursing like the blood within
Riding like sails on the wind
My journey of virtue and sin

Beginning at the dawn of self
A creative imagining
From fantasies to utter realism
A lifetime of evolving.

11-1-98