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Alcatraz

I am in the Alcatraz of my room,
where loneliness is endless
and dreams bounce off all the walls and back.
Never passing through the window into
the streets of letdown dreams.
I would come out to meet you,
but there are too many intersections
and I always cross against the light.
Please come to my room and we will
watch the world through window glass.
And if we become afraid
we will pull down the shade
and I will build you sandcastles on
distant shores, and I will
fly the kite of dreams to Disneyland
and back, and if it rains,
I will paint the sun on your face,
for all this would you love me?

Copyright © Robert Brooks | Year Posted 2023


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Two Strangers Meet

Two strangers meet.
Two lives that crossed in the street.
Only too many dying embers,
and to many lost Septembers,
had silenced the wind
that carried the songs
of their youth.
Strangers they were not 
bound by the seductions
of each other's hearts,
nor by the tears
that pulled people apart.
Gave way to the start
of an everlastig friendship.

Copyright © Robert Brooks | Year Posted 2023

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Coming Home

I am coming home again
in time for the roses.
I will walk from the train
and when I pass through the town,
I won't take time to sit down
and pass the time of day.
I'll just say hello
and be on my way.
And when I reach the stream,
I may stop and dream
and touch the wild roses for a little while
and touch the carved tree
that kept our secret.
And when I reach that sacred ground
where I last laid you down,
where your love went to sleep
in the hollow of the deep,
I'll place the roses by your feet
while I weep, while I weep.

Copyright © Robert Brooks | Year Posted 2023

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I Wish

I wish there was another way to say I love you.
I need new words to describe how I feel.
I need you.  Does that work?
Or I just want you.  Is that better?
There comes a time when words just don't tell you enough
about how I feel.
It only works when my arms are around you so tight, I cannot breathe.

Copyright © Robert Brooks | Year Posted 2023

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