Hope Tree

This one is an old but a goody. It seems especially relevant as Fall turns to winter.


HOPE TREE
Glorious is the leaf that hangs from the tree.
Even in its death a sight to see.
Exploding in a brilliant dazzling array.
When the sun disappears and the sky turns gray.

But what happens when the cold winds start to blow?
And the lofty leaf loses its golden glow.
From the tree that gave life it falls from grace.
Where on the cold earth its beauty's disgraced.

Mauled and mangled by the traveler's foot.
Browned and blackened into slimy soot.
It becomes nothing more than a fragile shell,
A lonely monument to the life it once held.

On an old tree hunched and scarred by silent pains.
One lone heart shaped leaf is all that remains.
I had dreamed that one day we'd sit under its shade.
And you'd hold me as I carved our initials with a sharpened blade.

In the fall of our love it still stands proud.
So soon to be enveloped in a wintry shroud.
I watch as my heart finally slips to the forbidding ground.
Where in the sky's raining tears, it drowns

They Make Dreams Like This version 2

THEY MAKE DREAMS LIKE THIS

Pink clouds signal the dying sun,
As the blue sky turns to black,
And dreams fade away
As tear drops I'll never get back.
The bell signals the end of our time,
But you're already gone.
And I'm left standing in my own pain,
Wonder if I'm already lost?

The night falls on me slowly,
A crushing weight of heavens above.
They promise me one day I'll be up there,
But than they also promised me your love.
God seems as far away as your lips,
His hands as cold as your heart.
Yet I still pray to him for you.
I wonder if he heard me at all?

I catch a firefly and let it go,
And it becomes our star in the sky.
But you only see the twinkle in some other man’s eye.
Until the untroubled night when your wrapped in his arms,
And the moon is within your reach.
You'll wish upon a star’s sparkling facade,
And he'll answer it with a kiss.
While I dream of you alone under a celestial glow.
Wondering why they can’t make life like this?

My twilight tears become your midnight mist,
The dew with your rising sun.
I fade away with your dawning day,
But the night will once again have its turn,
When the pieces of your heart are scattered amongst the leaves on the ground,
And the universe seems nothing more than an ominous abyss.
Gaze upon our star still sparkling in the sky,
And I’ll remind you always; a true love never dies.

Eternal Flame

I wrote this a couple months ago. Figured it was time share it.

Eternal Flame

The days without you fall like snow,
Until I no longer see the path from which I came.
The steps we took together seem to have never happened at all.
Yet I still open my eyes to find you were the last thing of which I dreamed.

As I fall back with a sweaty brow and release a heavy sigh,
He smiles and puts his arm across my chest not knowing the emptiness inside.
I’ve shared my bed with more bodies in the months since you’ve left,
Than the lifetime before…but their warmth doesn’t reach me.
For you are my eternal flame.
And within the barren tundra of my icy heart a glowing ember remains,
Waiting for your sweet breath to bring it to life again,
And reignite a love that has never died or been tamed.

But if it be fate that our eyes shall never again meet,
And the lonely ember shall never reach its former passion,
Then I will protect it from the tears that fall,
And save it from the hand of time by cupping it within my own,
And I understand that they may never understand our love,
And even you may forget it in time gone by.
But if ever I doubt love’s existence,
I’ll let your glowing memory melt the cold corners of my heart,
For you are my eternal flame.