In Love

"In Love"

Heart's pounding, can't stop smiling
every breath, the breath of new life.
What it's like to be in love
each step bringing you a foot higher.

Words are none, just a soft caress
by loving, caring hands.
Lips touch, world fades away
into nothingness.

Worries and fears
float away, dissolving.
Music playing, your love
whispering in your ear.

Love surrounds, fills you
making you one.
In love, what it's like
what it makes your feel!

Breath short, and hard
is the beating of the heart.
Looking into those eyes
getting lost.

Can't think, can't breathe
can't even see
only feeling the touch
of the one you love.

Love, that's what's going on
what you're in.
Feeling lost in a crazy world
only your love as a guide.

Then in a heart beat it stops
world returning.
Feeling normal once more
still staring into those loving eyes.

Always knowing you can return
go back to that wonderful place.
Where all you know
is being in love.

Yours

Gather my secrets
Probe my weaknesses
Molding and shaping
Take the clay of my mind
Make me yours

Shrouded in darkness
Take me deeper into the night
Where the demons of your soul
Seek the corruption of mine
Bind me in layers
Tear the sanity from my mind
Keeping me helpless
Dependent on you

Gather my secrets
Probe my weaknesses
Molding and shaping
Take the clay of my mind
Make me yours

Chains that hold me
Captive to your wicked ways
Watching the life I led
Stripped from who I will become
Bittersweet abyss
Pain and pleasure
Always one more step to take
Will this nightmare never end

Gather my secrets

Probe my weaknesses

Molding and shaping

Take the clay of my mind

Make me yours

Surrendering to your will
Broken and beaten down
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes
Now born anew
Protected and cherished
Never could envision
How sweet true freedom tastes
I am yours

New Beginnings

Written during my sophomore year after visiting New Zealand the summer before. I did feel very much at home in Wellington. The stranger in this poem is the taxi driver taking me to meet a very good friend of mine (B) for the first time in person.


I step off the plane
am greeted by a foreign man
in a strange, new land.

Driving in the car with him
on the left hand side of the road
I gaze upon the city that has held
my dreams for many months.

The beauty in incomparable
thought the differences strike my heart
excitement, anxiety, fear, joy
rush through my veins
yet, I feel I am home at last.

Fear Not, I Have Not Forgotten Thee!

A side note here. I haven't been feeling very creative, not as far as this blog goes. It is unfortunate, but I never promised that it wouldn't happen. I'm going to try to be more consistent when it comes to posting here, at least once a week. I do have enough material to make it through at least a full year of once a week posting so I have no excuses for not doing such this far. Hmmm, I should have a whole semester worth of poetry on this laptop. But then again, I have changed laptops twice since. It's likely buried amid who knows how many files, if I even kept them. I do however have hard copies. I'll just have to find them. In the mean time, I'll use some of my older works...


"No Freedom"

I want to be as free as a bird
Instead in a cage that I cannot break.
I hate where I am
I want to go home
To fly free with ones like me
Need my freedom to survive.
They're changing me to image themselves.
I hate what they've done, will do
But I can't break free
Too many chains hold me tight
A cage with only room to breathe.
Need to fight, must win this war
If I don't make it, I'll be gone.
No friends to save me this time
Stuck in this prison
No freedom in sight.