Jack sat on his porch, bundled in an old, malodourous duvet he had dragged from the dusty attic. Christmas had been two days ago, he supposed everyone was sleeping off their excesses. He needed this quiet emptiness. Something to absorb the noise in his head. Enormous snowflakes the size of a child’s fist floated and flittered through the chilled air. Under the weak cones of the streetlights the flakes looked like dancing...

I come up on deck laughing... then freeze, instantly transported in time.  That smell, that unforgettable cloying aroma of funnel cake and sunburned skin leaves me reeling mid-laughter. I start trembling where I stand, unprepared for the whirring picture reel of memories that appear unbidden behind blindly staring eyes. I don't notice Bob talking. I don't notice anything except the screams of children living life at their...

  What was she to do with that news it really threw her off her timing today she learned her fiance was returning after a long time away   So many times she cried she was so lonely with him gone and now finally he was going to be coming home to her   She remembered his kisses, so deeply moving so tender, that shivers went down her spine she melted into his embrace   He knew just how to kiss just how to hold her and just h...

Is it a destined fate? Or some yet unknown trait? I can’t find the answer What can turn love to hate? When the once warmth turns cold And the sadness takes hold You’re left with only you You will learn truths untold If you had more to give, just maybe you could live But when there’s nothing left, you become a captive You try to hold the light, with your wavering might But the darkness you fear, turns your day into night S...

Next to the strand, upon the tortured shore,I wept the tears of wretchedness once more. His faithlessness had me bereft and torn,While wavering be-chilled beside a bourn. A wistful face was drawing him away,She did not care that he was drawn astray. Delighting in seduction and deceitHer deft destructive power was complete.My lot was such that life felt drear and dourWith nothing left me in this fated hour. The skies spill...

You came into my life in a flash.A simple line thanks for the add.Did not know how that would change the direction I was headin'. I had recently lost love and wasn't ready for another. Did not know I had it in me to love someone other. I thought of you every moment, of every hour of every day. wondering how to tell you forever I would stay. I listened to your life with a bleeding heart, so much like my own that had been t...

Remember how I cried When first I heard your voice. Remember how I diedWhen last I was your choice. Forget the way my worldWas torn asunder then.Forget the way it swirled,I lost my where and when. Just know my love awaitsAnd walk with me once more,Until my pain abates, Beside me by the shore. The honey of your toneWas sweetness to my ears,And you and you alone Could bring an end to tears. I only hope to knowSuch joy and p...

It would be nothing less than a lie to deny that I am missing you. But my heart is all right. You are so far from me. Yet your very essence is ever present. Still, my heart is all right. Flashes of you consumethe empty spaces between my thoughts. Nevertheless, my heart is all right. I remember… Your spirit painted me daily with showers of warm illumination.Our yokes were equivalent. Your soul serenaded my mind daily witho...

In the Spring  I made you strawberry shortcake  I doubled the berries  Topped it with the creamiest of creams  I watched you savor its flavor  Took your compliments to heart  For you I’d bake a thousand cakes  Cook a hundred meals  Every day, for the rest of my life  I savored you  You were my delight, my daily dessertSummer came  Heat swept through my kitchen  Like the sandstorms of the dust bowl  In the sweet drippings...

Just one more time to count the costJust one more online love is doneJust one more couple tried and lost Just one more setting of the sun.So this one is a friend of mineAnd someone that I still hold dearBut now her eyes have lost their shineExcept for glitter from a tear. But why do we allow a dayTo be so open to this painTo try so hard from far awayAnd struggle when it's all in vain. I know that there have been a fewWho...

Since you went away the world is standing still.Since you went away my life has lost its thrill. Since you went away the road is one long hill.Since you went away,Since you went away,Since you went away. Since you went away my heart has skipped a beat.Since you went away my life has lost its heat.Since you went away I miss your lips so sweet.Since you went away,Since you went away,Since you went away. Since you left my li...

A fairy tale in modern times was this When we became a twosome on the net.We started with a simple friendship yet It grew into a true affair of bliss. Our hearts were twined without a single kiss We vowed to always share and not forget Our love was fine, would never give regret But I forgot that hearts could go amiss. You lost yourself in someone else's eyes Someone you always wished instead of me So now I spend my time i...

I can't pretend that I don't miss them Not while I'm still looking at their pictures. I can't pretend I don't see them Walking past the café on fourth. I can't pretend I don't hear them Not when they're shouting. I can't pretend that I can be free Not during this agony. Sometimes, you have to love someone enough to let them go. But I can't let them go.  I still hear everything they're thinking, like a part of me has ruptu...

Words of love were spoken.Trust was asked and given.Faith in truth was broken.Hope and hearts were riven.What does this betoken?All my life I'd strivenBut her oaths were lying.Even though protestingHonor, vows were dying.Pledges made, attestingTo the end denying,Twisted lies divesting.*************************At the start we marriedBoth our souls into one,And our hopes we carriedTowards the far horizon.All our fears we bu...

Did You Ever Feel The Same?I remember when I first laid eyes on you,You were the best I’d ever seen,I’d never seen a woman like you,I was wondering where you’d been.And I recall our very first date,As I stared into eyes so blue,I felt myself falling in love,Head over heels for you.Refrain…But there’s so many unanswered questions,And I’m not going to place the blame,I just have to wonder sometimes,Did you ever feel the sam...