Love is not a math problem to be solved
If you have the right formula; how long
The process, you will arrive in the end
Easy, exhausting maybe, but feel happy
Numbers is business, negotiate is easy
Both aspiration led to loving more worthy
Calculating risk is a sure win to safety
So as relationship is cautious to security
Never underestimate the power of sight
This is how analytics work to love forego
Being loving is worth risking as cautious
Believing what the future holds is a plus
A compass, a guide for a traveler's way
Grant that the Great Force will guide us
In our pursuit of love, life and happiness
This world is worth an adventure for good
To a heart that needing hands that hold
It takes two to tango when alone in a road
Where love is the inspiration to be strong
Life is worth living when two heart glued
In this challenging road only brave can trod.
Don't like the look of what's going on
seems to you something's wrong
the smell of corruption in the air
look around it's everywhere
can't place the feel of what's happening here
could it be something to fear
the sound of conniving on the wind
a warning call for all thin-skinned
so round and round and round we go
where it stops no one knows
it takes two to tango or so they say
but that was then not today
ask a question and they hand you
the same old automated two-step quango
one foot forward two steps back
while standing in quicksand
pose a query they'll sidestep the issue
and the matter at hand
giving you the light fandango
they'll look you in the eye and deny
it's all a web within a web
behind a web of total lies
Don't like the look of what's going on
seems to you something's wrong
the smell of corruption in the air
look around it's everywhere
can't place the feel of what's happening here
could it be something to fear
the sound of conniving on the wind
a warning call for all thin-skinned
so round and round and round we go
where it stops no one knows
it takes two to tango or so they say
but that was then not today
ask a question and they hand you
the same old automated two-step quango
one foot forward two steps back
while standing in quicksand
pose a query they'll sidestep the issue
and the matter at hand
giving you the light fandango
they'll look you in the eye and deny
it's all a web within a web
behind a web of total lies
When you don't see love,
Just go to the sea.
Make the sea breeze
As your love letter,
To send your love for free.
The sea is vast as ocean
So as love is simple,
Yet so unfathomable.
The heart is one foot
In between your head,
Yet so far at a distance,
So deeply felt unrestrained.
The mind is green when tame
While heart is red in passion,
To determine what is mystery.
Like the sea sometimes troubled,
Yet so gentle as the giant.
Love is peaceful as plain desert,
Tranquil yet so desolate to solve.
It needs two people to humble,
The troubled water by shared force.
By looking at distance shore,
Start paddling is a step to go there.
Where heart is poor the mind is willing.
It takes two to tango and dance the wind.
This sea of life is love to a brave.
The shore is way up there,
To get love and life the best.
Whose nerve never give up is strong,
To the sky the bravest we all belong.
You said alot of things
You stood by my side
I could hear birds sing
Life was such a ride
Now it's all ended
And the nightmares are back
My daydreams feel haunted
My life is completely off track
I stand to take most of the blame
But remember it takes two to tango
You were never really tame
Now I'm on a river of tears and I need to row
Brazil and China dance
Xi and da Silva romance
~ U.S. in a trance
They say it takes two to tango
So let's go and have a ball
Let's tango
We can gaze at each other with a sparkle in our eye
And sweep across the dance floor
Let's tango
Just once more
Let's tango
What are we waiting for
They say it takes to to tango
So come and dance with me
Love is like a seesaw, both sides can go up or down.
It's a matter of give and take but hope it's about giving
A lot more than you ever take with respect
It takes two to tango you both have to want to work on
Through listening patience and communication, seeing things from their perspective on their side and asking them how it feels for them and if you can Make amends forgive and let go
Having kids and finding the time when you work
Can build hurdles you are just too tired or unmotivated to jump
Like so many countless couples have to contend with today
With just too many complications and other commitments, your head is in a spin
And rows over matters can build the pressure till we blow our tops
it's never easy and it is something that we may not both agree on and it's our right to have a different point of view
If it really matters then it may be better if you can talk it through
Plans don't always turn out like you, expected them to do
No one knows what tomorrow may bring
And you have to rationalize your priorities whatever is more important to you.
The human condition often seeks simplicity,
For the complex mind to understand.
Looking through a window of forces to attract &
Repulse, as universal opposition seems planned.
These reactions may appear as solitary, yet
With outcomes that trend towards duality.
As paired views are born to manifest, some to
Follow the imaginary, others reality.
Recalling the phrase, ' It takes two to tango ',
Exemplifies this kinship that's ever-present & true.
Since there's no such thing as the perfect crime ...
There's always a remnant clue.
When we expand this relative philosophy,
To our presence in the world today.
We can see hot & cold, up & down, rich & poor,
Right & wrong, etc.- so many boundaries that guide the play.
Just as were compelled to believe independently,
We're also drawn by others to influence & share.
Begging the question, if this bond is compatible,
Or is it about power and blending to be fair.
As our current condition exemplifies, where
Multiple answers to any question seems real.
Bringing power to confusion and calamity, and
Changing another's mind, is the absolute ideal.
Number Four
It takes one to know one, I'm sure you'd agree
As it takes two to tango on a grand ballroom floor
I've heard it's a crowd when the digit hits three
So you really must go now, as your number is four!
Written 10/15/22
I thought I knew it all about you.
I thought love was the comfort of holding familiar hands.
I finished your sentences.
I knew what you were going to say.
I knew what you liked, did not like as well.
But, as a mutual know-all pair, we became bored.
Everything was so predictable.
We became pair of loafers.
We had shut the door on discovery and curiosity.
The joy and exhilaration of the quest
to find out more about each other had withered.
The familiarity we once craved to build our love
had unknowingly led to love languishing
in knowable surfeit.
Love had stalled, gone cold and stale.
It takes two to tango,
better still,
two to learn to dance.
You were caught by my sight, to my life you brought light.
In my thought I was lost, me found myself in your thought.
I was mute as we met, couldn't stop thinking, you are cute.
I expected to be loved, not in April like a fool I was fooled
By myself, I was wrong for biting off more than I can chew.
I stay I'm hurt, if I quit get hurt, between two stools I'm caught
Being busy counting my chickens before the eggs have hatched.
I'm all alone in it, 'cause it takes two to tango, no love existed.
It takes two to tango,
as they say.
It also takes two
to road rage.
It sure is fun watching
two insane,
out-of-control knuckleheads
zigzag aggressively
on the highway
with their driver windows down;
honking their car horns,
screaming
vile obscenities back and forth!
Classy guys exchanging "bird flips"
as they chase each other down;
both angry enough
to run each other off the road,
if they ever end up
side by side!
Can you imagine
being caught up in that craziness?
Two banshees on steroids;
funny considering
one can't understand the other.
That's exactly how to communicate!
In the midst
of all the chaotic madness,
me and you; two safe drivers
sharing the road with two idiots
without a care in the world
about the safety of others;
completely oblivious
they're also playing Russian Roulette
with their own lives.
Neither of the two
possessing the presence of mind
to simply disengage
and turn down the heat
before it spells disaster!
Do not tailgate
these uncivilized loons.
Pullover to the shoulder,
or better yet,
take the next exit to safety.
Date written: 05/03/2020
It takes two to tango
So here we go
She cooks
I clean
Utensils now have
A never before sheen
Sweeping, mopping
And all such things
Under my control
I put my heart and soul
Into these
After all
Lady of the house
Has to be pleased
The house is always
Spick and span
Initially I was unsure
She encouraged me
Saying, ‘You can’
Our love has since
Grown by leaps and bounds
More so, in lockdown’s
Second round
Physical distancing be damned
We are always cheek by jowl
Love on the prowl
No, no
Our kitchen has little space
That is the case
The 24/7 company
Has made us so tolerant
Of one another
You see
The distribution of
Household work
Has perked
Our relationship no end
Some bickerings do blend
In the chatter
That’s another matter
Finally, an honest confession
No third soul around
It is she and me
And no other sound
Can never take eyes off each other
Yes, you guessed it right.....
Truly, ‘Maid for Each Other’
When I'm old...
I'm gonna have a tree house cave
When I'm old...
I'm going to be a lazy margarita lizard
playing with little baby sea serpents
And writing poems and verses on chalkboard
Oh, and when I'm old...
Aquarius my sign sweet'N sour
I'll lotus easy peasy
Key lime the blue moon
While washing Orion's pearl
When I go old..
I'll sing a whale song
I'll whirlpool four-leaf clovers
Frost salmon it takes two to tango
In your eyes wax seal, blush babbling brook
And after when I'm old
I shalt be not dead yet alive
In heaven be gettin my praise on...
talkin to God and Jesus eating manna-watermelon
At the golden gates
For when your in heaven you're never dead
You're rebirth, reborn ever praising God forever
9/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
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