I seek the light
from your look that
i lost at sea
of memories...
I seek it to clarify
the hope of my
look, headlight off
in the dense gale
storms...
There is no right way...
there are only wrong
ways – there is no
Luke-warm love, for
love is not a portion
nor temperature...not
a two-step – but a toward
You Step. And we know love
when we see it...let it
happen~yes, free it!
Too often we flee it;
failures leave a lasting
mark – making us Leary
of future spark – once a
flame ignited, and then
smothered out, can leave
a nasty ash; better to make
the dash~yes, run. Before
the heart is barbecued~
overdone....
But no one has ever won
if not a wager on the board
of life – just ask my very
wise wife – who made a purse
out of a sow's ear...her headlight
on my deer.
she looks broken
lopsided, uneven, off
we look at each other
there are shadows
an eerie feeling on a country road
a motorcycle?
a car?
truck?
alien spaceship?
should we stop? I ask my husband
as we get a bit closer.
he shakes his head no
she looks spooky
in the dark
a single headlight
switched off now
we both feel there is something ominous
about this lopsided, uneven, pick-up truck
on this deserted country road.
Stuck
In the seams
My headlight
Beams
And I
Go on
Ever as it seems
So silly of you to think you had me trapped
into a corner with your endless arguments,
an innocent fawn caught in the headlight.
Hey, don’t tell me things that I already know
for there’s nothing you say that is really new,
your posturing can’t hide what little you knew.
Caught in your own headlight, oh no!
caught in the headlight, yes, you are;
admitting defeat just ain’t your style
though you are grasping at straws.
Your insecurity astounds me, you wicked man,
going nuts that I own what you have not got,
you are primed for the nearest garbage lot.
You stick like a leech when you want something
then switch gear when you feel you have it going,
I’m through with your music, fair-weather friend.
You’re crazy to think I can’t make it without you,
truth to tell, you need me more than I need you,
you don’t really know me that well, or do you?
Get the hell out of my life now, do you hear?
getting rid of you now is the least I can do,
the thought of you makes me boil all over.
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