Lost

I am tired, lonely and low,
I am weary, beyond the means i know,
Crowded streets, yet empty in my eyes,
even the clouds seem shaded in gray dyes..

I do not know why i felt this way,
Perhaps a debt i have yet to pay,
Perhaps even a soul in anguish,
worried that my heart may perish..

Fronting my eyes to a stormlit sky,
The way is dark, but i still tread by,
Hoping soon the rain would end,
To find sanctuary, with wounds to tend..

My thoughts kept coming to you,
A fixture in mind, faded and gray,
Flashes of the past kept passing through,
lacking the strength to keep them at bay..

My thoughts wander to a means for hope,
Anything i may find to help me cope,
A word, a talisman to ease the pain,
To climb back out from this pit i have lain..

Stumbling on through the night,
Staring forward to oblivion beyond,
Fighting just to stay upright,
Refusing to succumb to the final bond..

Perhaps there is light soon at the end,
Or perhaps salvation in the next bend,
Either way there is only forward,
With no clue to what i am heading toward..

Such is life, people would say,
To stumble blind in choices we made,
Night may soon turn to day,
And painful memories shall begin to fade..

A Girl And Her Rose

There once was a garden at the edge of town,
Its beauty serene, full of renown,
Lovers and poets have come to behold,
The timeless magnificence of nature's hold..

There i was as a lonely young man,
Trying to make sense of a changing world,
The warm summer sun, the rivers it ran,
kept my heart from running cold..

I saw her then, perfection personified,
The grace of angels among red roses,
To say i have not loved, i would have lied,
she had opened my heart, and it never closes..

She favored roses, and sang to the sky,
Her smile is warm in the summer sun,
Her spirit soars up on high,
No one on earth can take away her fun..

She visited always, a curious place,
As rose bush with only one rose,
Beautiful it was, but lonely so,
With her company loneliness be replaced..

I approached her now, my heart in love,
But she in turn fades away,
Her soft laughter echoes in the heavens above,
fading away from where she laid..

I shall not forget what i had seen,
I shall not forsake where i had been,

That time seemed so long ago,
As i walked through the arch to that once blessed land,
I passed the gardens that she once roamed,
To a statue of a maiden with a rose in her hand..

Love Is..

Love is a rainbow in a clear blue sky,
Love is a rose in a field of thorns,
Love is truth amid the lies,
Love is hope, when all is forlorn..

Love is both pain, and it is pleasure,
Love is need unveiled,
Love is a beating heart, beyond measure,
Love is madness to which my mind rails..

Love is victory, and it is defeat,
Love is peace, yet the mind is at war,
Love is love, when souls meet,
Love is forgiveness, when all is scarred..