Love Happiness Her

Love

Warmth and Life return
as desolate cold fills my heart
What remains won't even burn
The formless ashes of something
she forgot. Whisked away
by that deadly black art

Happiness

as I sink into what feels
like an orchestrated depression
my end appears and on its heels
I march toward the future
not a man but an empty shell
my corpse displaying the recession
of life and liberty a creature
consumed by itself trapped in hell
tormented by memory and sense
hostage to a reality unchosen
forced into partial death to commence
after what feels like a lifetime
shattered to the very core
an emotional stone trapped and frozen
retreating to imagination but a mime
wandering forever along the shore

Her

We both lay down beside you
The I with other obligations
And the one who thinks of only you
Both waking alongside pure beauty
Reconciled in one shell calmed by one smile
An inner-child bathed in sensations
Mostly psychological but all happy
Provoking the need I've nursed awhile
You holding my heart's backdoor Ki
Ki's so beautiful I ran before
Now I stare in hopes I'll see
Something I'd somehow missed
To enjoy the nuance and the symmetry
Perhaps the best things are worth waiting for
At least three years the last of which you'll be missed
And I arrived here quite naturally
It was love at first sight
The way you sat, your eyes, your hair
That you thought my favorite picture was tight
The walks with Otis in the park
Simply hearing the sound of your voice
The first letter and what I'd later share
L-O-V-E the path on which I'd embark
You're response... necessity, not quite choice
And it was better that way
Being with you and being at ease
Outweighs not knowing what to say
Or hiding wanting to run up to you
Hug you, kiss you, and hold you
To give in return, to please
For all that I've derived from thoughts of you
And when we're apart I'll wait with open arms and
closed eyes for you