In my seventeen I looked for the light
Amidst the darkness I found you bright,
Shining and breathing in me so lite
Wrapping yourself in my thought so tight.
Tell me now O Darling what you are
Don’t go away without giving any answer,
Are you the Sun or any shy aster
Now let me see you till my eyes get blur.
Why so hasten to hide your presence
I will die to thirst in your absence,
Let me see you Oh love for a glance
I will never request you by any chance.
Some celebrate the beauty
of knights, or infantry,
or billowing flotillas
at battle on the sea.
Warfare has its glory,
but I place far above
these military splendors
the one thing that you love.
For proof of this contention
examine history:
we all remember Helen,
who left her family,
her child, and royal husband,
to take a stranger's hand:
her beauty had no equal,
but bowed to love's command.
As love then is the power
that none can disobey,
so too my thoughts must follow
my darling far away:
the sparkle of her laughter
would give me greater joy
than all the bronze-clad heroes
who fought it out at Troy
-- from the Greek
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When Your Heart Loved Mine
I have wandered on the Earth for eons now
Been in mystic places longer than a lifetime
Moments from the past I can see somehow
Less vivid than when your heart loved mine
In a dream I hear a voice say be there soon
Nurtured my thoughts in the midst of night
And teasingly wandered beneath the moon
Begged me to hold her hand under its light
You descended from the sky to comfort me
A soft touch transformed into a solemn kiss
When time comes to finally end a love story
I would beg fate to grant whatever you wish
October 29/2025
6:42 p.m.
Aboard Vision of the Seas
Cruising back toward Baltimore
Your love is far
Far, so far, hmm, only an imagined love
But means everything. How to get closer?
Hmm, we can’t. You don’t move, I don’t either
Hmm. But you aren’t selfish, beautiful mermaid
A beautiful rose from a far world, a tale country
I can’t fly there, unknown your address, oh hope
Hope, hmm, the love, untouchable, inaccessible
You are far, living in the sky. I am in hell. Of you
Yes, love. You destroyed the love and all the hope
“You are a liar. You live in your hell.” No, I live in hell.
In The Hell. Oh, my heavenly life. Imagined by you
Hmm. But where is your hope? Hellish in heavenly?
Oh, no. The love has gone far away. Far, far. Dear love
Be my love. My heart is a love. Yours. Only. Our kind
Hmm. Please, make a feeling. To us. Hmm. A familiar
Bring closer
Somehow
The love
Your heart
Your love
To the heart
Into the love
Into
The Love
Give a chance
I need. Hmm
Love. Hmm
Hmm. You
Only
You
Love
You
If It's *Magical*
You Should Know
Where It Is...
Not Where You
Put It This Time,
Saying: "I'll Remember That!"
*No You Won’t.*
You'll Make It
Fondly Fondness
Somehow An
Obligation.
Where'd It Go?
*Told You So.*
Start Over.
If It Is *Precious*
*Know* Where It Is.
Not: "I'll REMEMBER Where I Put It!"
You Hafta' *Know.*
***Lost Objects***
"What's Love Got To Do,
Got To Do With It...?"
I Love Tina Turner
Like That.
*Same.*
-Gray Squirrel
12-09-2025
Two bodies
Silent exchange
One glance
One spark
Eons unleashed
My kitchen will hold the key,
love like warm oven brie.
Too many cooks here so flee,
this is my holiday plea.
Only one needed cook bee,
with dinner and hot tea.
The broth must not taste like the sea,
but with a touch of glee.
I look at them—so bright, so rare,
and wonder why I’m never their favourite there.
He loved someone who glowed like gold,
and next to her, I shrink… my story left untold.
Am I enough? I ask each night,
for beside his past, I lose the fight.
And if one day he finds someone true,
I’ll break inside…
but still, I’ll smile for you.
For the love I hold is gentle, pure—
it wants his joy, even when I’m unsure.
Maybe someday, I’ll finally see
that I was always enough…
just me....
She lost her panties, didn't grieve,
until it snowed: one frosty Eve.
I will go down to Irish Town,
where the old grey tower still holds
a barren watch for the shrouded ships
in the sea wind's show'ry folds.
The florid men of the marbled heights
throw pennies at your pain:
in Irish town they'll give you wine
as sweet as summer rain.
The haughty dames of Parson's Hill
have learned their love at school;
they feed their gallants perfumed cakes
and break hearts by the rule,
but the women down in Irish town
were born with hearts that know
too desperately what wanting means
to think that love's a show.
So I will go down to Irish town
where the river meets the sea,
and look for a little lasting love
in the grim grey tower's lee.
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i fear that i become the love i once afraid to get
the affection i had left behind—
the roses i gave in
without any expected return
because a gained respect for them
is a disgrace of my own
i had to beg for answers to be answered unsure of
an explanation i didn't even know if the question
i had asked, or just another curiosity that i'd think of,
you're maybe enlightened i feel this way
a cry of prayers, silent scream in pillows
"please, hear my agony. i am begging to be truthful to love"
for only if could sell my soul, i am six deep under of what you're standing on.
i wish i did that, anyways
i had regrets about how my innocence ate me whole
that even my heart became blind when i told her to heal
but then hurt someone else's soul,
God, rest thy soul,
i was fearfully and wonderfully made
but i made me to love fearful to them.
I'll leave before the day I know you'll let me go
Because , you see, you have no idea how good I'm not for you
You put me on this pedestal where I know I don't belong
And yet, though I'm standing right in front of you, you can't seem to see how many pieces I'm broken into
Now sure, I may smile in your presence, laugh as if the world and everyone in it is like a dream come true
But that fact of the matter is, I haven't been happy in such a long time
And you may think that the reason I left was because something must have been wrong with you, but no, it's the other way around
How can I stay and have you fall in love with my false presentation
How can continue to allow you to put me up so high where I know eventually I will not meet your expectations
So, as I said before, I'll leave before the day you let me go
Leave so you will have this lasting impression of who you thought I was before I ruin it with who I truly am
I need you to remember me as someone I'll never be
Because if you found out who I really was, I would have never felt a love like what you've shown me.
Some say “happily ever after”
only happens in movies.
That isn’t true, because I found you.
You are my once in a lifetime love,
my soulmate per say.
You are my happily ever after,
and I wouldn’t ask for anyone else.
Dusk, burning in black flames.
Icy white, tinged with blue, an empty looking white.
Cherishing the sight of thorns and needles.
Barbwire hidden in crops.
Ash and spark.
Blue roses bloom under the crescent moon.
Icicles casting shadows that stretch for miles,
such nonsense.
Losing to such riffraff.
Tender muscles, warm to the touch.
Numb eyes crying like a raging river.
Can you feel inspiration coursing through your veins?
Spoken into existence through spotlights,
holding hands in a field of rats.
Blood dripping from softly parted lips.
Cut through the flames sword of Ares.
Guide me into the grave, for I am your instrument.
Till death do us part.
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