Who can explain love?
It doesn’t have a form
Can we measure it’s breadth
or scale its height.
Where does it start?
Where does it end?
How does it move?
Who dare stand before it
and command it to come and go?
Who can set limits on love?
Always in want for more,
we bid what it commands.
Can love be patient?
This demanding taskmaster.
So hard to hold back
Won’t wait for the proper time.
Maybe time is the enemy.
Our meager container
Who can hold enough?
Who can give enough?
One lifetime can only taste.
Is happiness our pursuit?
Or is it love??

Some things I anticipate
Early there and never late
Leading up to what I love
The hands of time need a shove
When it starts. For Pete’s sake!
I now want time to take a break
No one can restrain the past
Or make the future get here fast
Maybe I could have my fill
If, as in dreams, time stood still.

I called on your heart and found
Beautiful things that abound
But a chamber was there that no one could see
and a scar that is deep and profound.

Awful events had to hide
Making you anxious inside
You should not have borne this burden alone
No one knows how much you cried

We can redeem every tear
Comfort each thought, every fear
No matter what hurt that innocent heart
To me you are perfect and pure 

I don’t love you for your cooking
Though you make the greatest food
I don’t love you cause your sexy
Though you put me in the mood
I don’t love you cause I won you
Though you are the greatest prize
I don’t love you for your looks
Though you have such pretty eyes
I don’t love you cause you’re moral
Though I know you’re just and true
I love you for one reason
Cause you’re good at being you.

My dream, was you were near
My life, was as I feared
My eyes, were shedding tears
I was alone
Your name, under my breath
Your love, after you left
Your heart, within my chest
Yearning takes flight
Through walls, a gentle breeze
Through frost, and swaying trees
Through storms, over the seas
This longing soars
Past spite, of hateful men
Past hell, if you descend
Past pain, with souls to mend
Spirits rejoin.

While separate and alone
The inner person groans
By keeping love in sight
Two spirits take to flight
If ours would ever cease
I’d find no inner peace
A void a mile wide
My heart would keep inside
That’s where I’ll always stand
Can’t change the inner man

You traveled through my heart
and settled in my head.
That’s how it all began.
You’re in my thoughts again.

When feelings are expressed
and no one seems to care.
I know you’ll understand.
You’re in my thoughts again.

At night when silence reigns.
You’re sleeping far away.
Yet still my closest friend.
You’re in my thoughts again.

As fall resists the wintery scene.
Ghouls emerge for Halloween.
Tonight its vogue to wear one’s fears.
And costumed creatures appear.

Not doomed to shadows anymore.
Ghosts float up to every door.
Heroes, stars, grotesque undead.
The candy monster will be fed.

Black cats arch, witches fly.
Pass out fruit you’ ll hear them sigh.
An artful crowd in front of homes.
When time is up, the goblins groan.

This old man could have gone.
And danced across his neighbors lawn.
But I’ll open  doors and smile wide.
At emboldened kids and mothers pride