It Begins

When care becomes a chain
When love becomes a pain
When everything I am has become not me
When life through another's eyes you see
You lose perspective you lose sight
You lose self in another light
Every choice requires approval
Every failure a removal

I'll have no more of the bejeweled shackle
Remove this gold from my ankle
Remove this ring from my finger
I am yours no longer

Today I celebrate the return of mirth
It is no longer by you that I measure my worth.
I am a genie from the lamp wished free
I'm a celebrant and my surprise I now see
So many possibilities and so much time
So many pleasures and they're now all mine
I barely remember when all I wanted was you forever.
This is now and it is so much better.

Keats
05 October 2012

The Failure of Metaphor

What is there left to look forward to?
What else is in store in a life with you?
Would it be like the first light of day?
Made perfect by the breezy sea spray.
Shall it be like a rainbow after rain shower?r
A gentle show of the sun's power.

Are you the joy of a gift newly opened?
Or the wonder of luck that has happened.
Are you the vibrance of a fireworks display?
Or answer to supplication long prayed?

I dare not compare any of these to you.
For your traits I cannot to things imbue
None can compare, no trope will do
None represents your virtues true

I love to be yours and for you to be mine.
I love how our hands and hearts entwine.
I wish for nothing, not treasure nor siren's song
It is simply for your love that I long.

Keats
22 May 2012

Faerie

Emergencies dictate the movement
Responses required within the moment
To take what is needed
And rise to the occasion
The call is heeded
No hesitation

The challenges have come
The battle's not done
All weapons released
All bloodlust unleashed
Expect no quarter no reservation
It only gets harder, more tribulation

Disasters fall with no warning
Preparations fail as shortcomings
No wall so strong to withstand the sea
No monolith so lasting as to forever be

I have responded to all emergencies
And spread myself thin in all the urgency
The challenges came and they've been met
But I've not recuperated yet
Disasters came, I've withstood them barely
All resources drained entirely

I'm sorry, this is all I have left to present
Destroyed, depleted, deficient
All I have, all you see
All this is yours, take it -- take me
Use your magic
Redeem the tragic
Reverse the decimation
Grasp the sands
In your hands
Rebuild my shattered vision

Keats
12 April 2012

One Moon

Alone this night and you’re far away

Whether I whisper or shout, you’ll never hear me say…

You’re there I’m here

Though it’s strange, I feel you near

Will you come quickly, it won’t be too soon

But at least tonight we’re under the same moon

She is perfectly shining and gorgeous tonight

The orb beckons me to bathe in its light

Selene she whispers and tells me gently

From where she is, she sees you, she sees me

So now I look upon that disc in the sky

She told me to look now I see why

Because tonight, for me, she mirrors not the sun’s rays

Tonight for me she reflected your face.

Keats

9 March 2012