LET ME SING TO YOU

Let me sing to you softly
While you brush your hair
While you smile sweetly
Happy we're together
Let me play for you 
Every cord an emotion 
Born from my love of you

Let me paint for you
The picture in my heart
The picture in my head
A nude of you with assorted fruit on top of your head
It's okay to laugh at ourselves.
Everyone else does. 

Let me drive the rusty car
I know you hate that old hoopty
I don't care what I'm driving as long as you kiss me when I get home
I can block out the sound of that left front wheel's squeaking 
If I think hard about you

Let me strap your bra on my head
Pretend I can't study if I don't have my thinking cap on
Watch you laugh at me for a little while
Because everything's okay when we're together
Even if our GPA is if falling because we can't study when we're together

Let me think we'll always be together
Even though life is hard
Even though things have changed
For love we've never starved

Let me sing to you softly
While you brush your hair
While you smile sweetly
Happy we're together
Let me play for you 
Every cord an emotion 
Born from my love of you

rlakes

TOO LATE

I wanted to say something to you
I wanted to tell you how pretty you really are
How your smile sooths me
How your eyes send a chill through me
I wanted to say something to you
But when words failed me all together
I just smiled at you

I wanted to play my own song for you
With the 5 cords that I barely know
Maybe that's not enough
To let a rhythm truly flow
I played your favorite song instead

I wanted just to hold your hand
While we drank rum from the bottle
Writing poems that had no use
Since I never say what I really feel
I wrote about sea instead 
Love for you crashing like waves kissing sand

I wanted to tell the world about you
All the things that move me concerning your heart
Try as I will
Where would I start?
So I watched the local news instead
Cellos playing love songs for you in my head

I wanted to kiss you 
Passionate and deeply
I've held so long my heart for you
You touched my cheek and made your way home
I sat is silence 
Smashed my telephone against the wall
I don't care if anyone ever calls

I wanted to serenade you
I thought I could move you
Be your umbrella when it rains
To show you love is not the same as pain
Even though you hurt so good
Love can save
Love can cure

Yet I sit with my head in my hands
Longing just to hear your voice
Your friendship somehow I've forsaken
For a chance I knew I shouldn't have taken
Knowing too much now that it's too late
The same old story
"How a Heart Can Break"

rlake

UNTITLED

I fail in the sternness of your observations
To complete the circle 
So in your words I could never give you something whole
While you back away from me with fear in your heart
You are more the broken then I
As I stood in wake of your criticisms
I grew strong in who I am
Your bad tides never taking me under
In what I can be when I come together
My shadows move with me 
As shadows do
Because I face illumination

rlake

US

The essence of your heart lies just outside of my perception 
The ghosts' in my head are bare 
- ever at your description 
The twists and turns in you bare my full reflection 
To comprehend you 
To give you all I can give
I seek the deeper meaning that I feel for you

I get something out of this
No challenges from you are obtrusive
They set you and I apart
Seeking better ways and better means
For being who we are
No apologies for feeling
You cover my heart with a smile

rlake