Blank is the meter of my successes
Gone is the raw spirit of my childhood
Now payment is due for my transgressions
The present is bleak, The future stays blue
Buried ‘neath the weight of expectation
Suffocated, it seems, by my own dreams
Afraid to move, stuck with hesitation
The heaviest heart corrupts ev’rything.
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The heart that I once had cannot withstand
Another breaking, love for the taking
A man cannot know the pains my heart has
Without being shattered like so much glass.
Betrayal and lies, love searing mine eyes
Feelings I despise, that you recognize.
I weep for you, friend, that you have suffered
I know the sting of untruth all too well
But one cannot allow darkness to win
Lest your soul become numb and unfeeling.
You speak of my soul, as though you are wise?
You know nothing of my endless anguish.
Imagine your heart ripped from your own chest
Imagine your lungs unable to breathe
Ev’ry happiness that I’ve ever known
Was used as bait to lure me to my doom
I have no heart, no soul left for mourning
I gave up my feelings for a cold life
I know not what to say, so I’ll leave you.
But know this: love does not give up, my friend.
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This rapidly ascending chaos spreads.
The house of cards I have built will collapse
No equilibrium, No balance, None
Can be reached between life’s play and passion
True, be what you say, but only in part
The balance has always been there, waiting
For one with the courage and wisdom to
Seek it out and call it by name: True Love!
Not this love that common bards chirp about
So blithely that like minds think them all wise
You speak of love, as though it lives and breathes
As real as the stars, the trees, and the leaves
I can’t argue that what I feel is real
But every breath that Love makes me steal
Is less a pleasure and more a burden
Than those that a free man would come to feel
There are diff’rent types of Love, and not all
Require a fall, some are climbs, some are dives
Love of work, love of joy, love of sadness
Love of greatness! Love of ev’rything good
These are not things to be discussed lightly.
Let me think on these matters for a while.
Indeed friend, take your time. I look forward
To our next meeting. Ponder you these thoughts.
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The beating of the timeless waves crashing
The gentle cradle of life’s song swooning
Two opposite natures’ constant clashing
Come my friend and hear the ocean’s crooning
Life here: always simple, never easy.
Death here: a beautiful yet dismal gloom
Living here is to live unchained and free
Dying here is to buy another’s doom
It can be cold, dark, but never lifeless
For even in the depths there be dragons
Leviathan and Kraken, here they dwell
The briny bottom houses these old ones
Blue and blossoming, the ocean calls out
And all the world cant help but hear its shout.
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A wish, nothing more, is your memory.
A fading promise you’ve long since betrayed
Your voice used to inspire and embrace me
Now the rapture’s gone, it’s price harshly paid
You fell from my grace, I fell out of love
I burdened your very name with exile
The pain of our loss was all I dreamt of
Relishing the taste of my sorrows bile.
Now again we waltz, these feelings return
And though I warn my heart to be guarded
I know deep inside that I’ll never learn
And I’ll end up again broken-hearted
But still in my mind there glimmers some hope
That maybe by now, I’ve learned how to cope.
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