Poetry for 2002

New Language

Perhaps I'm strange for seeing it
or do you see it, too
No-one can know every word
It's meaning and it's truth

A quarrel in my mind broke out
Between lobes one and two
if I can only think in words
will English ever do?

My left and right glanced silently
At the treasure that I viewed
And turned their attention to describing her
As best as they could do

How can I describe her beauty
I'll try to count each phrase
Her splendour floweth everywhere
And perspirates in waves

Her body shows quite solemnly
The reflection of her age
Still I think it's paradise
To be caught up in her gaze

My lobes strain to see deeper
Far past the smile I see
They delve into her presence
As fish into the sea

I find her world is shattered
Far as the mind can see
But yet I feel a peaceful hand
Of comfort, strength in me

My journey thus completed
I amble on alone
To face my problem still at hand
To say whate'er I see

My mind stays trapped within Itself
For my knowledge is the key
To paint the pictures of all life
With words instilled in me

Why Me? (a love song)

C B Am G F C F G C B Am G F Dm G C

I caught a sparkle in your eyes
A shimmer, twinkle, star so bright
As time is lost locked in your sight
I start to wonder, Why?

Chorus:
Why Me? Why me??
Just Lil' ol crazy, silly me
You've got the world set at your feet,
And still, yeah you love me!

How could it be that you kept me
From all the fishes in the sea
Do I deserve the perfect girl?
The one that rocked my world!?

I step right back to see your grace
And to admire a shining face
The one I love and treasure most
And so, I'll wonder why...

I'm still assured that you are mine
And if it's for the rest of time
Throwin' bread at birds in the park
I still will wonder why?

Loss
Soaring high
Over the land below
High like a bird
Lost in flight

A bullet clipped my wing
falling fast and hard
My beating never failed before
And now I see the ground

I'm going faster now, the clouds sailing past
Tearing through the sky like a siren through the night
Someone help me, somebody please
I'm doomed to fall, to lose my life

Trapped in a sea of blue and white
I try not to sink with all my might
It's all in vain, I'll die anyways.
To live in the grave all of my days



Halei

I never found the solace that
I felt in you that night
The stars were carved like diamonds
And the sky cut through like ice
An eternity spent waiting,
Wanting! Longing for this night.
I sensed a notion, questioning,
"When will this be right?
Why would splendor incarnate
Be mine without a fight?"

I know well the road I took
That wrapped around your mind
The stillness there was soothing and
A dwelling for a time
Then crashed like shattered glass Life fell
In fractured facets fine
All from a dreamers doughty mouth
"Please! Will you be mine?"

Now life has no meaning left
Content I'll never be
My world is gone, flown far away
Over fell tree and weed
I don't care for antics cruel
And desires long died away
But why did friendship go to hell?
Just Give It Back, I Pray!

I don't think I love you now
But I know I did thin
Until you threw me to the ground
Like litter in the wind
I can't see through shattered eyes
Distorted by my tears
All I Want Is What I Had

And That's All You Need To Hear

Rapier

Rapier through my heart
And out the other end
All my world, my last remark
Halt, my soul again

faces fly through my mind's eye
Friends or foes, justaposed
And still more thoughts go rushing by
Of Jesus, who I love the most

the glint of steel goes far too fast
and finds too much in moments gone
for me to think of all thats past
or why i feel so scared, alone

i fall in devilish demise
as too my knees i wonder why?

Rhondo #2