Show me the way

shower me
with you smiles
your kisses
show me the way
to your heart
and lead me
out of this foggy land
to where I belong

bring me to your side
that you may keep
me there forever
to flood you with passion
erasing innocense
and heartache

let me in
out of the storm
i'll bring you
to shelter too
to a safe place
covered in clover
where flowers picked
cease to die
and showers never cool

tell me to come
cross the ocean
to wade in yours
hand in hand
as we dance
on satin clouds
beneath the stars
and each other

tell me you can't
take it anymore
tell me you won't
wait another day
tell me you don't
need wyoming
that you won't
ever let me go

and I will be there tomorrow

So.....

Look where
don't fight it
got us-
fighting time
and space.

If hours
feel like weeks
how will I ever
make it
to the fall?

Thirty-one
will bring you
less than thirty
from me-
but that's still
eighty-something
away.

Close your eyes
ride your dreams
to our ranch
to find me
on the porch
with a smile
and pocket dog.

So......
Tell me
something nice
to make the day
a little less
cold and empty
without you.

Clover Field

My ear is still
warmed by
your voice
and my heart
is pounding
so hard
that I wonder
if you can hear it
from where
you are-
so far away.

I want to scream
your name so loud
that the echo
finds your heart
and caresses away
every drop
of loneliness.

I hold this map
in my hands
that shows the beautiful
pathway to you...
but I feel lost
without your arms
to welcome me home.

I can see you
holding Iris
smiling at me
asking for drinks...
tire of that
I could never.
Come here-
come home-
to one who loves you.

My Arboretum

There's the most
amazing garden
at the arboretum
where one flower
stands above the rest.
There are moments
when it rains
that the strangers
who gaze in amazement
are unwelcome
and infectious,
for few
if any
ever see beyond
the petals.

But I-
I can relate.

There are days
when I just want
to be plucked
and taken home,
or up-root myself-
catch a young
wild wave
ride it all the way
to Australia-
never look back.

One day
we will all wilt
and die
but today is sunny-
warm-
-without rain
and I think I see
my wave coming.

The heaviest feather

If I close my eyes
and block my mind
from worry
while drifting off
to the bears
you can appear
in an instant
as the day
you were born
draped in only
your own magnificance
smiling through
a bitten bottom lip.
You motion
for me to come
closer to touch
what I have
only to imagine.
And your breath
warms me
from the inside out.

But the heaviness
snaps be back
to reality
in a place
where we both
are afraid to move
and afraid not to.
What is right
and fair,
what are the words
that open doors
where walls
previously stood
erected in stone.

I could tumble
over Niagra Falls
in this barrel.
I saw all the signs,
only your mention
of the roaring water
made it seem
possible-
likely-
maybe inevitable.

But the falls
are still off
in the distance
leaving me time
to paddle to shore
should either of us
choose to abandom ship,
while my thoughts
run away
to your bitten
bottom lip.

All I need

How sweet is this day
we swore forever
while hoping for one night
skin on skin
arm in arm
lip to lip.

To be apart on a wedding night
is so unnatural
but such is our story
so surreal
so magical
so unbelieveable
and yet so far.

Can I break the chains
that bind you there
with what I feel-
lend you the strength
to follow your heart home
to me?

Would you hate me then
foresaking all you know
for all you don't
but still need to survive
beside me
your truest love?

What if the years
become decades
and your child
becomes children
and your freedom fades
into darkness
where I cannot find you?

What if I grow lonely
and seek your embrace
in the arms of another
and become so infested
with guilt I can't bear?

I am not a child
nor too blind by love
to ignore what we both fear
may one day destroy our hearts
and leave us homeless
in the wake of that aweful storm.

I tell you I need you
but do you
know that I need you?
Do you feel me
reaching inside
to massage your
lonely heart?

I hang on your words
like a sinner in the gallows
swinging from the pole
as life slips from my lips.
Say you love me
that I may be cut free
and live another day
to love you
better than before.

Say we can finally be one-
rescue me from
the death sentence
of a life without
what was meant for it.

I plead to you
once more-
I need you

my love



I need you...

Sleep don't weep

Do you know
I spend my time
dreaming
of fresh new
ways to tell you
I love you?

To make my
heart beat loud
enough for you
to hear from
where you pace.

Relax your shoulders.
Let go of your tension
and embrace the song
I sing for you.

Fly in the night
from your rooftop
to mine
and dance with me
and God
beneath the starlit sky.

Angels smile from above
when they hear us
trade I love yous
to each other.

Until the day
you hold me in my sleep
and I hold you in yours,
these pages shall remain
our sacred house of love.