The Rag Doll

I’m lying alone between cold sheets
It’s dark and the day is barely new
How many nights must I face like this?
Lying alone with the memory of you

Deep down in my heart I feel the pull
Deep down in my soul is something cold
Lying alone with the chill on my skin
Dying a death with nobody to hold

It seems I am destined to walk these streets
Arm in arm with my solemn despair
Over my shoulder a casual glance cast
I had the feeling that you may be there.

Deep down in my head I know it’s not right
Deep down my body is aching alone
Lying in bed with your name on my lips
Dying my death when there’s nobody home

I’m crying inside shedding silent tears
I’m bleeding to death from the hole in my heart
Take me away from this pain that I’m feeling
Don’t leave me alone with my soul torn apart

Deep down in my mind I know that you care
Deep down I can sense you’re thinking of me
Lying alone in a bed cold like mine
Longing and praying at last to be free

Tissue Paper

Delicacy of purest white
Crisp and virtuous the smooth façade
Brilliant bliss in splendid form
Sheer and light and devoid of scars
A tiny tear
The smallest crease
Beginning there and slowly spreading
Losing lustre from inside out
The purest from falls apart
Pitiful and wretched
Shaken, torn and empty
The slashes deep, the stains are blood
The secret heart is lost
In an instant
It’s ripped asunder
Twisted and shameful
Once full of life
The pathetic form quivers
Caught in the winds
Time the healer heals no more.

The Cage

The deepest dark
The blackest depths
I’m falling down
With baited breath
I cannot see
Nor can I hear
But I can feel
That which I fear
The swirling mist
That chills my heart
And runs my through
With Ice hewn dart
Yet in the black
A tiny light
Flickers there
As though in flight
A perfect glow
Of purest pale
Sits deftly on
The broken shale
My cell, my bonds
This light does shake
My heart, my mind
It does re-make
My dying breath
I’d freely give
Without regret
For love would live

Lovers Touch

Steam rises like the swirling veils of the harem dancer
To cold glass it clings as mist to dawn’s first rays
The flickering gloom pulses with life
Warm and inviting the glow beckons
Musky depths and sweetest rose linger on the senses
Longing to envelope they tarry, patiently
Calm and unbroken it waits glistening
The dancer whispers, her tendrils entice
Slowly it embraces and then engulfs
With lust it consumes and plays upon the nerves
Skin like silk becomes slick and alluring
Radiant with reflected fire
Seeping into the heart of you
It glides and caresses with a lovers touch
Heightening with excitement
The promise of promiscuity
Eating away at the energy within
Lethargy and enchantment take hold
Deepening fatigue slowly takes you
Straying out of body and mind
Breath deep and slow stirs the dancers veils
She watches, ever so close now
So close
Consciousness that was so distant flies back
Rushing in, it awakens and enlivens
Retreating from your lovers grip you’re shaken
It trickles, bitterly chilled upon warm silk
The dancer and her veils surround your body
Casually and contently you dispose of your lover
The passion play is over, and you’ve got what you wanted
Satisfied, pure and sensual you feel, until the next time

Stuck in the Middle With you - of Dusk and Dawn

Take your time, she says
Her sweet voice echoing in the twilight
The promise of what’s to be
Of decisions made when they are apart

Whatever your heart desires, she says
Tempting breath lingers in the air
Foolishly they strive for answers
Never arriving, never relenting

Look into my eyes, she says
And he does
Across the circle of stones
He can never touch her

Tell me of the moon, she says
The darkness and emptiness of night
He shows her from afar
She’ll never exist with him

Take me to the stars, she says
The growing light draws her in
She’s caught in a snare
Between day and night

Why do you leave me so, she says
No answer, she’s alone
Dusk and Dawn
Forever longing, never to meet

Stuck in the Middle With You

The things I’ve seen
Who, when and where
The things I’ve done
Still you were there

The things I’ve felt
Deep down inside
Were things that I
Could never hide

You are my anchor
You are my wings
You hold my hand
The simple things

Never one side
Or the other
You stay with me
My sister, my brother

Since lives were young
Yours and mine
We’ve cleaved close
And tread the line

But now you’re frayed
A cracked facade
The toll is paid
The price was hard

The things you’ve done
Still I am there
The things you’ve seen
I am aware

The things you’ve felt
Deep down inside
Are things that you
Just cannot hide

I’ll be your anchor
I’ll stay the tide
The things you feel
I can’t abide

Always with you
That I pray
In the middle
Where we stay

Nights Caress

In twilight deep the minds first gaze
Was cast upon her midnight days
Where sun blushed skin and tousled hair
Revealed a fire burning there
In tempest seas of deepest blue
He saw a soft and tender view
Entwined within her warm embrace
He tasted there a lustful grace
Touched by the rays of dawns first light
He sank into the glistening night
Not earth nor stars not sun nor moon
Could take from him this shameful boon
How many days and nights had past
When her dreams awoke at last