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The Death of Trust and Love

They said you would deceive
     I didn't want to believe

I loved with all my heart
     thinking we would never part

I stood loyal and true
     Always believing in you

For years I was played
     and ultimately betrayed

Too many times it seems
     too many broken dreams

I don't think I can heal
     when I can't trust how I feel

When you said you lied
     all trust inside me died

I fear I'll never recover
     from the lies of my "friend and lover".

     (orig. 8-19-2014)

Sun

              SUN 

The morning sun is slowly rising
   dancing splendid upon the horizon

Those shining rays warm a path
   to dry the dark nights misty bath

It floods our world with glorious light
   chasing darkness and the night

It climbs the sky warming the ground
   until it starts to go back down

Then it sets upon the bay
   stealing the light with the day

Colorful, beautiful, strong and bold
   A wonderful sight to behold

I revel in the glory of
   the sun, the moon and God above.

             (orig. July 2008)

Lost

LOST

Out of reach-
Like in winter
A swim at the beach.

Out of sight-
Like something distant 
In the night.

Lost in thought-
No where
Can dreams be bought.

Lost in now-
But I will find
Myself somehow.

(LAW Orig. 1-7-81)


I Want You Orig By Mike Peralta

"I Want You - My Reply"

I want you to stay 
and show me your face,
I want you to go out
and lose your shell for me.

Tell me what my hug means to you
Tell me what you think when I kiss you.

'Coz I want you, I need you
and won't make you unhappy just like before.
'Coz I love you, I tell you
Don't think you're not good enough for me.

I am your fantasy
I'm not letting you fall apart
When we talk I can see
I can feel, you are interesting.
When you say that you love me
and tell me almost everything
I will not break your heart
that's a guarantee.

'Coz I want you, I need you
and won't make you unhappy just like before. 
'Coz I love you, I tell you
Never think you're not good eough for me.

You can tell me all your dreams
I will understand
You must open up to me
If you will, I'll never misunderstood.

'Coz I want you, I need you
and won't make you unhappy just like before.
'Coz I love you, I tell you
You are just good enough for me.

(original Song Lyric written by Mike Peralta -USA_
"She Wants Me"
all credits given to him

Fear and Identity

I was afraid from early on to act on my passions, 
because the price was too high, 
life too fragile.
Instead, paying the high price of developing a fragile life 
because of its been afraid to toughen. 
 
Afraid, 
believing that I did not have the right to forge a place of my own liking and compatibility in the world.  
Still believing.  
Still facing the unbelievably entrenched fears:
How little I can let myself, my passion, ME be me.
  
Someone deeply believed that my nature as a human being must be disassociated at all costs, 
and I learned it.  
I know it is not only me. 
Others face the agony, 
the excruciating pain of traveling from disassociation to identity.

And my life must not now be over.  
I can still have the things I want, but I don't know how.  
I have not had a family, 
I have not kept faith and traveled with friends.  
I have not pursued making the world need my skills and contributions
 as part of the machinery of life.  
I have not made my identity with myself and with humankind.


Orig 1983
Revised 2011

Hello Omar

thanks omar; re spelling; i'm orig. from brooklyn; not only are we expected to 
spell everything wrong, we can't even talk the king's english...by the way...who is 
our king these days?  does he speak english?  LOL-  thanks, and what'cha think 
of Forbidden Planet?  sorry to use this medium (instead of well-done?), but you 
left no email address.  thanks for the comments, Soup Forever!!!!! Tom


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