Loyalty Warrantee Overdue
Sat watching the attention focus
On the latest flavour of the month
Switch and back flip like a middle finger
The stench of promises linger in the air
All crudely put together in sound bites
Words spoken while the eyes look elsewhere
Little factions grow betray loyalties
While the long standing the always there
Despair at the tragedy unfolding
Watching the lies playing out
There is only so much that can be taken
Before the final loyalty is past redemption
A warrantee requires payment
Not the false adoration of a night past
But the service of honesty and friendship
Otherwise the risk of invalidation
Loyalties warrantee is overdue
Readjust focus to clarity
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Mistress and dogs
Mistress and dogs
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There is a selfish satisfaction
Set amongst the sweat and shame
In the messed up bedrooms
Clothes lay scattered on the floor
Thrown in a moment of lust
A savage wild wanting desire
That took hold and passed so quick
It was barely even given a second thought
Now having had their piece of meat
Liars, cheaters, lover’s lay still
Smiling without talking
What brought them here?
Sex sells it’s overpowering
Makes good men weak
And weak women stronger
None are right to cast judgement
Both are as guilty as the other
They’re lying breathless
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In her silence
In her silence
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In her silence she said so much
Yet offered so little to be admired
The sum of these parts now accounted
Leave less to be remembered
The dull ache of the irritable heart
A diary entry torn out and cast aside
A lesson learnt, perhaps time will tell
The mistake in judgment agreed for now
But for the experience in itself
Each thought and emotion taken in pen
Then written overly expressed in verse
How magnified the whole situation
But what is a poem without its licence
So silently and shy she suddenly became
Once those words had been let slip
That a heart or mind would imagine
Any possible explanation
And so a poem became written
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Tale of a conversation
Tale of a conversation
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A conversation like no other
Began with a nervous look
A charge felt in the air
History being rewritten
The talk changed that night
Something drew closer
Like an unseen force
Was it the wine talking
Or the words being spoken
Were the one wished to hear
A step taken closed distance
A hand held in a hand
A short silent moment hesitated
The first kiss between lovers
When all did change
A feeling unplanned happened
Seemed so perfectly natural
That there was no fear
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A last love poem
A last love poem
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Breathless I lay sleep deprived
In a wonder of thoughts of you
Your beauty has imprisoned me
My heart subject to a fools fancy
You are there in my silent smile
Like a little glint in my eye
You’re the nervous feeling
That holds inside of me
That beautiful, beautiful dream
Were I to hold your hand
Your fingers held in my own
And lay silent beside you
Just looking face to face
Being lost in your eyes
Then falling for your smile
How I would love you
My thoughts are not my own
For they all belong to you
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Awaiting inspiration
Awaiting inspiration
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What would I not give for the company of the muse
When poetry fills the air and heart it sings
Oh beautiful night bring to me the divine
Let me become inspired and driven to pen
Those ideas and stirrings I would feel
The words spoken and written in ink
Preserved upon the page in crisp verse
Oh bring to me the inspiring muse
I wait with impatience to feel alive
What worlds the minds eye travels to
In a journey of passionate thought
An emotion sewn into a story book
A portrait enraptures so easily
What would I not give for such presence
The company of a muse this evening
Oh beautiful night while you rain down
Bring to me the inspiring light
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The unplanned romance
The unplanned romance
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I never planned to feel this way
But this how you have left me
Watching the clock, counting the hours
Until I get to see you again
I wont pretend this will ever be easy
We all know love is a difficult game
Who would have thought
That it would come to this
A perpetual wait, waiting for the day
When my eyes light up seeing you
And I smile like a little child
What a feeling you gave to me
Looking back to before this happened
If I had told myself about this
That I would feel this way
Love is complex and strange
Ever changing rules
I may never understand
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Childish thoughts like these
Childish thoughts like these
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Why do I find the urge
To stamp in a puddle
Left by the passing rain
Like some childhood reminisce
To kick and laugh needlessly
It makes no sense
Yet there I am thinking it
As I walk the streets daily
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A can left on the pavement
I cannot help but kick it
Run with it between my feet
Even though littering is wrong
I could pick it up and bin it
But I choose not to
~
I saw a squirrel run
Up a tree and over branches
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The day is all but a game
The day is all but a game
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The day is all but a game
A sport for the living to endure
Tiresome and full contact
By the end you know you’ve been played
Weary bones and minds rest
Trying to recollect the highlights
Picking apart the analysis
So as that to understand
The result in this break in play
Substitutes no longer an option
The team of family and friends
Who trust and faith rely upon
All looking good on paper
The odds should be fairly stacked
But never taken as easy or granted
The daily game is tough
And experience requires endurance
The strong shine through
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If Not For You
Where would I be if not for you
A lost soul still looking for love
Still questioning if love is true
Counting each lonesome night
Dreading the new morn to come
And the emptiness of each new day
That seemed to pass unchanging
That which you took me from
Where would I be if not for you
I looked upon the rain sorrowful
Now I feel its beauty on my skin
The wind blowing in its change
Filling my lungs afresh with air
My heart beating to a rhythm
That I only once dreamed about
That I now pray this is not a dream
Were would I be if not for you
I do not wish to answer this question
More to look ahead with a smile
And to think only one thought
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