While cupid's axe gently cleaves

Words I sang were all I'd got,

Chocolates and flowers and a passion burning hot,
Sweet were your words laced with love,
Higher and higher my heart soared like a white dove,
Hands clasped we walked into a million sunsets,
Soft moonlight on our skins we lay on the beach in beads of sweat,
Looking into your eyes so big and brown,
As I remember those days all I can do is frown,
It took but a day to undo our long bond,
Fragile as crystal and delicate as a frond,
There are certain choices never easy to make,
Evil things done that put love on a burning stake,
The door to the treasure of love is never left ajar,
You may have won the battle, but you've lost the war..

The Tempest

Alone and vulnerable I sit in my dark world,
A tempest of emotions in self loathing I swirl,
Searching for a rhyme a reason to smile,
To feel happy and loved if only for a little while,
Serendipity cleaves my life with its axe of sorrow,
One amongst my kin yet bitter and hollow,
As empty as a gloomy shadow blocking out the sun,
Each step taken in screaming agony, my shadow weighs a ton,
They say a glimpse of the end brings clarity to one's means,
Helps put life in perspective and account for all your sins,
But how does one account for the vagaries of fate,
To see no ace of spades once our cards have been dealt,
I want to feel happy and loved if only for a little while..
Searching the world for a rhyme and a reason to smile..

Catharsis

There are seasons of happiness and droughts of despair,
one follows the other in a life thats ever so unfair,
be happy, be content and share in the mirth,
clutch at the straws of joy and pleasure before they hit the dirt,
just like actors, masks we all wear,
to hide behind the truth, protected from the unpleasant stares,
when you see a pretty face that sets your heart aflutter,
watch out for the blade that plunges like a searing knife through butter,
hate becomes a bird of prey swooping in for a kill,
ecstasy snatched away in an instant turns to loneliness waiting for a fill,
as I watch out the window through the bars of the rain,
each falling raindrop a thundering hammer on my pain..

I looked up last night at the inky black sky,
and for some strange reason I felt a tear slip my eye,
There was something familiar in the empty nothingness,
A sense of belonging to a world filled with sadness,
The full round moon kept a solitary vigil,
A lone ember glowing in the infinite frigid,
The soothing lunar rays sing a song of joy and hope,
That not all is lost and there is still scope,
Look into your heart and you will find the courage to endure,
buried deep within its walls a reservoir of valor so obscure,
Move on, perservere and falter not whatever the cost,
Remember to think of those who have come so close to climbing their everest, but wavered and lost..

Ethereal

Lead me fair maiden into the shining light,
hold my hand and clutch it tight,
show me what love is, teach me wrong from right,
draw closer to me, cast aside your fright,
close your eyes, let me be your sight,
give wings to your imagination, let your thoughts soar and take flight,
breathe in the warm night air, feel the surroundings so hush and quiet,
sense a familiar shiver run down your spine, revel in the delight,
lead me fair maiden into the shining light,
in your arms I will spend the night..

A tribute to Independence Rock XXII

A thousand black shirts wave and shout,

a mix of adrenaline and ecstasy comes pumping out,
with a stratocaster around his neck the leather clad pied piper weaves a web of magic,
old melodies hold sway and the rats turn nostalgic,
deep purple and pink is the colour of the night,
on this black sabbath day the thumping drums show their might,
two and twenty years have passed since the seeds of independence rock were sown,
ensnaring all in its majestic glory its tribe has splendidly grown,
to the scorching riffs and melodic solos even the deaf must succumb,
its only fitting then to say...I have become comfortably numb!

Death Whispered A Lullaby

There are times when old memories gnaw a deep hole,
Needle and pins become reflections of my soul,
Sunset streaks the horizon like a funeral fire in the sky,
Stars twinkling above become embers that glow and die,
A mask of serenity painted on his face he lay in the cold shroud of death,
Arms folded across the chest bravely embracing his destiny he slept,
A pain sweeps across my being and all I see is a deep dark schism,
Our togetherness shattered by death like a beam of light through a prism,
Farewell old friend you were a kind soul like no other,
Tears fill my eyes and all I can say is - See you in another life brother..