Paired

i always place fork with spoon

vinyl record with show tune

salt and pepper in pots

line trophies together of battles well fought

i keep tea and coffee together

and animals attached to their fur

i places shoes and socks good to go

and lamps awash in their warm glow

i do not break flower from stalk

or wear high heels on a walk

i match locks and keys

and fragrance with breeze

and slippers and smoke

and mood with toke

i don't separate right from wrong

or sorrow from song

there's no pleasure in drinking alone

or separating sex from the phone

i always butter my toast

and declare love the most

it's like your fingers and my hair

and sensing love in the air

if i can help it

i never separate pairs

just because we can't be together

doesn't mean belonging is all that rare.

Purple

take me on a wild goose chase
i don't care, a tricky maze
i don't care, a la la loop
have me jumping through burning hoops
if i'm a sacrificial lamb that's just fine
i'm willingly lead to the altar you'll find
stop making excuses would you please
i'm saying cease and desist
and just be cool, stay right here
i won't talk love, don't fear.
(even if i'm feeling it)

Rub

bridges and switches

to burn and turn

on in a jiffy

even if it's all kind of iffy

or not really hep or cool or in

surely this isn't what you'd call a sin

so burn those boats let no one near

use your switch and watch skin sear

be indecisive, escapist or what have you

as long as you're here, even opportunistic will do.

Rub

you're off to colder climes

leaving me alone with all this rhyme

and i dwell in the moments of the past

an old tale, not forgotten fast

and now he appears in my life

his absence cuts like a knife

but asks only that we be acquainted

and i agree, willingly antiquated

our conversations are intense

old incidents are making sense

but i am afraid to take it slow

because, sometimes, he seems good to go

but you can go off and do your thing

travel the world, have those flings

because i'm in this space in my head

my heart says go, like it has always said

this acquaintance is bound to grow
see me breaking down this door

i'm stepping into this room of grey

please be there is all i pray

i'm travelling half way as i always do

wait till i get there, please won't you?

Love Song

you spoke your love into her skin
you whispered hey let's begin
let's go that place you and i
where you don't get to say goodbye
your breath warmed her very soul
and your caress made her want some more
and so you yielded you gave in
you craved this sweet sweet sin
the rain is gentle this afternoon
in bed there's a different tune
that lingers and swells and builds up high
and they are helpless and do know why
love does what lovers do
in each other, once more anew
and it keeps getting harder to leave
but time is like an old sieve
my love goodbye she says
clinging unwilling in a daze
but shut the door firmly on this day
or sure as hell, there'll be hell to pay.

Rub

loneliness gnaws at her soul
and she searches for those who don’t care any more
maybe they did at some point of time
but now they feature only in her rhyme
when did all this cease to make sense
when did she lose all frames of reference
has it been growing or is this new
she’d like to know, but has no clue
this is she, the new her
hiding behind words, like a cowering cur
but she writes or at least tries to
it has been a while but this won’t do
she drags her soul screeching from the past
hoping this time this sojourn will last
there are no guarantees to life
and this damn thing doesn’t feel so right
so she’ll stay a while at least
till she gets restless and wants to leave
where will she go
what will she be
who knows let’s wait and see
maybe she’ll disappear maybe she’ll disagree
maybe she’ll stay true and remain me.