This is dedicated to anyone who feels lonely

 

Lonely

I feel so alone today
my love's so very far away
I feel so alone today
so alone

 

My friends they laugh when i say,
my love is living far away
It'll never last, i hear them say
I feel so alone today

 

My mother on the phone she say,
you cannot love from far away
what do you know I always say
I feel so alone today

 

I wander alone beside the bay
feeling so alone today
I wish my love was here to stay
I feel so alone today

 

I stare at stars up in the sky
I think of her so far away
If only she was here today
I feel so alone today

 

I feel so alone today
depressed and sad it's fair to say
If wishes could make it go away
I feel so alone today
so alone
so alone

 

Love

A warning now to you I'll give
Of poison sweet but slow
It tells of pain and insanity
And then I'll let you go

 

Sweet poison of men's hearts desire
As cold as ice, as hot as fire
Beating heart and burning pain
Enough to drive grown men insane

 

What causes this I hear you ask
Well childlike Cupid has this task
To wound mens hearts without regard
To make their lives so very hard

 

Cupid innocent, thought by men
Small darts he shoots at hearts and then
Adds poison, which by childlike stealth
Takes away mans ruddy health

 

A poison sweet as nectars taste
Does more harm than evil's haste
It tears the soul and burns the brain
Makes wise men fools and go insane

 

A hunter uses barbs of steel
While cupids arrows we don't feel
Until that nectar starts to flow
And then it is too late to know

 

The force of love runs strong through veins
It can be sweet but causes pains
It lasts for ever, never quick
It gives you strength, it makes you sick

 

Mere mortals we deride its power
Believe effects we can o'erpower
But all is lost, try as we might
We then are doomed to feel its bite

 

Sweet Cupid uses all his guile
He leaves us wanting for a while
The poison builds til we complain
Causing waves of endless pain

 

It rips your heart, you never sleep
It makes a grown man cry and weep
The pain that all must bear sometime
Oh Cupid it is such a crime

 

I've had this pain, just once you see
As you can tell it's done for me
I'll tell you true so listen well
True love is just a living hell

Missing for Three Days

 

T'was Tuesday night, or then again
Maybe Wednesday morn at seven
When I last spoke to the one I love
I miss that voice, its heaven

 

We spoke while she prepared for bed
I'd just got into work
I had to go, my boss did call
He really is a Jerk

 

I wonder where my Gal has gone
She has not been online
For ever since that last quick call
My mind has not been mine

 

I can't think straight, I wish she'd call
I really need to know
That she's Ok I'm getting tense
I need to know it now

 

I Love that Gal, I really do
I miss her ready laugh
If she's not online very soon
My mind will turn to chaff

 

So if your out there, sexy Gal
Please call me here at home
I'm waiting by the IM voice
To hear your dulcet tone

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Mortality

 

Day and Night still fairly fly
Chasing each other cross the sky
Faster still, that speed so great
No sooner wake than down to sleep

 

Do men not realise how fast
The days are going , soon their past
And all too soon our time will come
And with the earth will soon be one

 

My days on earth will soon be done
I've lived my life, you get just one
And soon St Peter will I see
I wonder if he'll talk to me

 

Will I be granted access there
Because my sins have counted fair
Or will he send my soul away
To fend in Hell an endless day

 

I still love true, an angel she
Across the water, waits for me
I want to meet her, be her all
Before I hear the trumpets call

 

But if by chance we never get
To meet in person don't forget
I'll wait for you at heavens door
And be with you for evermore

 

A love so true as ours can't fail
To beat the ever shortening days
For I'll be waiting strong and true
I'd wait for ever, just for you

Oh stars, bright lights in darkness glow
We look at you from far below
We only see you in the night
Your fiery points of white hot light
For many years you've cast your gleam
To aid us mortals as we dream
The names we give you are our own
As cross the sky your lights are sown

 

Oh Moon we watch you in the sky
You wax and wane as months go by
And cast your pale yet silvery glow
On us poor mortals down below
We've stepped upon your surface bare
And thought about why you are there
Is it to aid us in our love ?
As you hang there so far above

 

Oh mighty Sun who rules by day
Our lives you do hold in your sway
If you should fail we all will cease
They say your life will soon decrease
Your raging fires from deep inside
Give us our heat, we've none beside
When winter comes you still appear
Though softer yet, you still are near

 

Ah Venus mans fair globe of love
We see your pale light far above
Shining down on lovers who
Make tender promises to you
On you I swore to always stay
True to my sweetheart, far away
I made this promise to my love
When I looked up at you above

 

Poetry, Music of the soul
You come from deep inside
You write yourself, or so I'm told
Your feelings never hide

 

You tell of love, of pain and woe
You never hide lifes truth
You bring emotions to the fore
Don't hold yourself aloof

 

A poem sings to free mens soul
It dares to show our feelings
The reasons why we are not strong
The reason why we're living

 

It tells of lovers here and past
It rights so many wrongs
It lives with us for many years
The souls own perfect songs

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houghts on a Rotten Journey Home

 

Just gone 5, and I'm on my way home
After slaving for 8 and 1/2 hours
My heart is a blank, my mind it is numb
And I'm trying to dodge the showers

 

I wonder if others have my concerns
Do they also work for some moron
Do they slave all day to earn a small crust
Without much reward to repay them

 

I sit on the train with the rain howling down
Like lemmings we follow each other
We all huddle closer for warmth, or for strength
I sometimes wish I didn't bother

 

I want to be rich, successful (or young)
I don't want to work for so little
My father was right, my mother was wrong
I should not be content to just settle

 

By now in the car my thoughts turn to home
I wonder what I'll have for dinner
I hope she is wearing that sexy red dress
I'll starve first, then have my food later

 

I wanted to work for myself don't you see
To make my self rich by hard working
But life has a way of hiding the truth
Only now can I see what I'm missing

 

I settled for working for somebody else
To help make them rich by my working
I really do want to go off on my own
My brilliant ideas are worth something

 

Turning into the drive, I switch off the lights
And sit for a while on my own
With a wife and two kids, pet cat and a dog
I've barely much time all alone

 

I trudge up the path, the house is bright lit
I'm home and I have no regrets now
She opens the door, she makes life worthwhile
It'll all have to wait til tomorrow

 

The Candle

 

Shimmering glow as your wax it falls
Dancing light show on the walls
Lighting the path with your silver glow
Showing us the way to go

 

Your life is brief, you burn out fast
And unlike us you have no past
We dwell on memories as we thrive
But you have none, are you alive?

 

We trust your guttering smoky haze
To light us through our many days
And when your gone we feel no pain
Although your sparkling smoke remain

 

Do you feel sorrow as you burn low
Or feel a pain when time to go ?
Your light still shining in our eyes
We ne're have time for soft goodbyes

 

No heart to break, no tears to shed
You do not lie in lonely bed
And when your light goes out at dawn
You leave behind no one to mourn

 

For heart you've none to cause you harm
Your only task is light and warm
And brief as though your life may be
Oh candle do not envy me

The Mermaid

 

Come listen to me and I'll tell you a tale
Of sweetness and love devine
Of how I was smitten by a fair young maid
Of a fantasy once was mine
While sitting in my cottage home
Down by the rocky beach
I heard a voice run through my head
Just slightly out of reach

 

The voice became insistent
Was ringing in my head
It told me to come to the shore
I swore and went to bed
All through the night I lay awake
Could hear the waves great roar
The voice was sweet and silvery
Til I could take no more

 

I saw the time was dead of night
As I reached for my coat and scarf
And as I opened wide my door
I swear could hear it laugh
I wandered slow along the beach
And heard a beautiful song
Drawing me onward to the sand
Was dragging me along

 

And then I saw a vision
Of beauty true and rare
A mermaid sat upon the sand
I swear that she was there
With long blonde hair down to her hips
My legs they turned to water
This wondrous maid so beautiful
Her song still rang but softer

 

She turned towards me, smiling now
With teeth of pearly white
She spoke so clear, was like a bell
She was a wondrous sight
She whispered to me as I stood
Upon that rocky beach
I've waited long for many years
I thought you out of reach

 

I come to wait most every night
For you to come to me
For you're my true love, always were
For years now, can't you see
I watched you as you played this sand
When you were only three
I knew you'd find me in the end
Was destiny you see

 

I shook my head, it cannot be
For you are just a girl
And I'm a man of 46
My mind was in a whirl
She laughed just then a silvery laugh
Was too good to be true
Oh mortal man I never age
And soon no more will you

 

She took my hand with fingers light
Her touch it was like fire
She gently kissed my trembling lips
I filled with loves desire
My heart was beating like a drum
My limbs filled with a yearning
For many years I'd lived alone
Not knowing what was missing

 

I stared deep into eyes of green
I knew I'd found my love
I kissed those wondrous lips again
Was heaven from above
We held each other on the sand
Until the dawn did break
She whispered, lover come with me
Alas my heart did break

 

I cannot come with you fair maid
I cannot swim for long
She laughed again that lovely laugh
For this world your not long
If you should take me to the sea
And walk with me beneath
We will together always be
If me your life bequeath

 

I looked back at my lonely world
Saw nothing there for me
I vowed to her in simple words
I loved her don't you see
I kissed her fiery lips once more
She meant the world to me
I lifted her into my arms
And strode down to the sea

 

We watched as men my body found
As it lay in the waves
And tried to bring back life to me
My life they tried to save
I looked down at my mermaid fair
Her beauty never alters
And I can say with no regret
My love it never falters

 

 

 

 

Hi Forty+,....the wounds feel raw.......may time and love heal them....

     

                         Many regards...Dolly.....