My heart shattered
You gently caress.
Your smile like mischievous
Fireflies
Lights up my darkness.
You breath aliveness into me with
Your warmth.
Making me want to love you
For breakfast
For lunch and
For dinner.
I smiled through the window of
My tower
Like a doll on a stall
But you noticed that I was alive.
I fall in love with the shyness of your
Eyes.
With the quite strength of your soul.
With the words you speak like a bird
That sings in the woodlands I adore.
I wish to see you grow like an oak
Play me lullabys like a busker travesting
Through the streets of my dreams
I dream
To be with you right now.
Down I walk the reclusive path, darkness trailing around me
When I turn around I'm haunted still by the demons of my past
So heavy the chains that bind me down, to what I can no longer see
Only in nightmares am I forced to relive these tragedies at last
A slave to the monsters under my bed, that possess me in my sleep
Spirits that swirl in calamity, afraid of the things I know
I pretend I'm fine, truly okay, those aren't tears when I weep
In the icy shell I call my heart is where the sickness grows
When daggers blade seals my fate and I descend into the shadows
My only wish beyond is this, that I fade into oblivion
No golden gates, no rosy pearls, no tall grass in the meadows
Don't send me to an afterlife, just leave me with no guardian
For even the lives of angels and demons are still slaves to their masters
I beg on my knees to be set free of everything that strangles me
No life of serving a special deities spending every day to commit to flatter
Just cut my sails at let me float free into the emptiness of the unending sea
After making love -
I lay my head upon your chest
To hear your heartbeat;
You are delicately built
But wonderfully alive.
Your skin is like satin
Draping across my fingers
As a blanket would but better;
Let me lay in your warmth
'Til the evening's end.
Pretty pease won't you please return to
me and come on back to me sunshine
Because the cold winter night's I
feel have drawn in way to fast this year
And as you quite as well know I hate and
am scared of the impending imposing dark
And has taken with it the migrating
sounding song of the lark's mating
call
Ever so joyous and playfully eminent
to be behold perched proud aboard
garden wishing tree
Which and whilst in summer once
provided me slender hope to cling
onto
Now come winter serves only as a
painful reminder that
Like it's stand's before me now
with it's branches barren stripped
down bare devoid of leaves to cover
and adorn it
Again like everything else in this here
thing we call life
This two shall surely come to pass
If not in this life then surely hopefully then the
Afterlife
Until then finger's firmly crossed hey
Uncover your mirror's you can love
Your self again.
Be it some form of mental illness that
Was the root cause
At your age you can fix or alcoholism,
Seek out the help that you need.
The stranger will only for a short time
Fill the empty sail,
The sail on your boat that is you.
Give unto me some bread wine and cheese
For as long as the hunger of love has departed.
Did you from your past sweethearts keep
All those letters you read?
As I go through the photos of women I've known,
A simple reminder that life still goes on.
Have you still not uncovered the mirror that's you.
Feast on each love and lift up your head there
Is still love after love.
Already there it is nearly gone,
no magic, no music flat waves.
I am, because of you and trusted how we, two lovers met.
And other people,
lost along the beaconed way and we cannot see to use it.
You were the miracle all saw, because I am simple, of me.
It was found as well out in the wind,
and I found it out in the sea - come to me,
it is splendid, it is not, as for me.
Tidal pools, see ours the fish swim in circles,
as they wait to get out.
Great is the ceremony, look to the coastal side,
wherein I was brought up.
But however the pool it looks,
in the dark by the moon, it was safe.
Safe from the storm,
life was for me, you looking out from the sea.
Then if it is bitterer than the sea for want of peace,
after love you are the price that I paid.
She
Lonely
Feels accursed
Abandoned by love
Now
When you are near me
I lose my mind
I forget my own name
As though I am waking from a deep sleep
It sounds lame
After all you drive me insane
A secret buried deep within the crevices
Of my heart, you are that spectrum
That burning flame
The thrill that I found to press my cheek to.
When you are near me it is as if
You slow time
I don't mean to play this same song
But we both have our own worries
After all who is going to love me?
Have you fallen for me?
I have fallen for you.
Feels like fifty feet down
But how did we happen?
Are we not ordinary people?
This life feels extraordinarily fictitious
After all it's been eons since we have
Communicated, exaggerated, facilitated
A thought of a whisper
We are both simmering in our own misery
Are we not?
My self I’m not in love wit myself;
In one breathe all I have left is you alone my God
And myself
You accept me for who I are
Lord, God I haven’t been yet satisfied for who I am
All I know is that I belong to you… and
You have promised me victory
If I’d just open mine eyes to see…
Other than Lucifer I am my own worst enemy
I can’t see myself loving me
Is there someone other than YOU I need…
I need you, someone else physical and me
I need to love MYSELF
YOU SEE…
9/17/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
We met
and talked
coffee after coffee
he was very masculine
said, I was beautiful
our hands touched and caressed
later, we pulled the curtains closed
our lips touching
our hands exploring skin
finding serenity
in afternoon love
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June 21, 2019
Poetry/Romanticism/Serenity in Afternoon Love
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1159-176-02
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Submitted to Your Choice (12) Love Verse
sponsor, Brian Strand
Third Place
in this world
no words to compare to this
secretly, publicly, silently
in utterance, in writing
This word is LOVE
-March 10, 2019 Chattogram
Blindly
Wisely
Safely
Calmly
Blindly leap in, but do so, wisely
Proceed with caution safely, calmly
Date written and posted: 11/25/2018
I stay yours,my destination is you.
I have to do with you talk.
I saw you only once.
And since then you have become mine.
I day yours,my night is you.
Put your hands in my hands now.
Let me see you fill the mind.
I have got you years.
I stay yours, my destination is you.
I have to do with you talk.
I hold you in my arms
Every so long
Every so strong
My love for you is right
Holding you tight
Calling you tonight
And I am after
Love ever
and always,I pray
you feel the same way
And I am after
Close caption
Words in play
those words I long to hear....I love you
I hold you in my arms
Every so long
Every so strong
My God shall grant me this
You shall be my Mrs
On on the wedding day
Before We say "I do" I'll seal it with a kiss
and always,I pray
you feel the same way
12/18/17
written by James Edward Lee Sr.
after love
i lay me down
... and sigh
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