Everything

We greet the world with nothing

No credit to spend nor share

Penniless until we change

The world from our first word

Each action to each consequence

Decisions to afford,

That we earn from the premiere

And charge it to our thoughts.

Now you arrived with nothing

Donated a lifetime more

Made factories from man-made tools

Made morals out of hellish roots.

If you leave us with something

Know that you changed our minds

Stopped us in our tunnel vision

Made us change our tracks.

I look on to see the light

To give and not to get

To seize the opportunities

To love and not regret.

Accumilation falls in debt

On what I so far have not spent

On every healthy heart and soul

Funds to burn and minds to turn

But I will spend your legacy

The softly spoken words to me

Will pass my lips

Will leave my pen

Will render another thousand men!

You're not gone when you're with me

Or with your soulmate,

Left on Earth

Or each one with a memory

To all of those who confirm your worth.

You left the world with everything

No relevence has time

40 years of spending

From your very first of words

No credit left to burn now

Yet many a mind to turn

The Job's left with the living

To spend and not return.

Friday's Child

Thursday brings a year in age

For Friday's Child to grow and change

A lease of life again renewed

To start afresh if you so choose

It may seem this landmark day

Stands down, inferior

Fails to take

Importance in the grand exchange-

The passing of a Loved One's soul.

To the diamond mine he goes

Where he is safe, where he can shine

And stain ubiquity upon your life

Now the bearer of this flame

Take him through, the good you'll do

The lives you'll touch

Not in his place

But by his side

Where he'll always remain

To love and give, birth-right dictates

Virtues to bear

And never to change

Yet now we're blind to memories new

What more is sight but selfish gain?

We have in mind last words to say

Hold your brother gone, yet near

Keep your memories running clear

For Thursday brings the grand exchange

Now Friday's Child can come of age.

North and South

It seems a long time round

Since we were tete a tete

This morning's walk seemed short

Spending most of it in my head

Losing time in thought

The sky did bleed eratic drips

As they spilt from deflated will

Has all considerate care been lost

Exchanged for falser things?

We become like North and South

Together we're compelled

Yet you seek out the other pole

When I'm not there to select and draw

Saddened in the absent days

I am alone without my North.

You live there in limbo, just.

There's something in the body's water, unclean

Passing through internal rivers

Like a swelling of a poisonous stream

Spilt from an inside job

Can you tell me your view

Standing on the brink of Death?

Tip-toeing, tilted face-forward

Gazing over the edge

We're seated near, you and I

Can see the state of each outer shell

Knowing little of what lurks beneath

The last sight, before you cease

Will soon turn to memory

But yet no detriment is lost

And sentiment becomes all.

In your absense years have passed

Now so will many more

Tears fall for the permanence

And loss of our control

I live unbeknownst

Can draw nothing from a photograph

Can perceive nothing of omens instore

I love willingly without debt

Falling, with every chance of recovery

Reaching the most sensitive of senses!

Into the dangers of anothers' arms

To slide from such as unhingeable place

May well bruise the foot's sole

But the soul of vital value

Somehow remains in tact.

Undivided Love

As bright as morning, overdue

You took my hand and lead me through

That old acquainted door I'd passed

Just once before, through I had walked

To turn and find that you were gone

And I was left a gap from you, alone.

I held you in my finger tips

Your skin lain soft beneath my touch

I fear for what is good in you

Distracts my better sense from truths

Blinking sights of beautiful

Each eyeful scans a part of all

So I know every line, each hair

Can know and feel when you're all there

I know no better way to fall

Through melancholy laws, so tall.

Together find a Capulet

And Montague for Juliet

We lie asleep like star-crossed frauds

In each others' arms we're forged

But when day-break divides us both

A promise leaks to stay in touch

But for no message I will not wait

As our undivided love proves one way.

For My Lover's Fate

For my Lover's Fate I stand aloof

Covered by a thickened veil

For I darn't let such a fiery truth

Reek anarchy over whom I hail

Perhaps from within this guarded state

All romance tucked in sentiment

-which in itself is tucked away

Can I protect a heart so fickle

A heart which beats so far from mine

Despite our bodies intertwined

I know for whom your heart dost beat

Yet she sought out betrayal

I know your fears and vital woes

But knowledge is no currency

In the economy of Love

To disappear from custom haunts

Remove me from distracted thought?

Yet aback I stand, for moral sake

Forbade myself from sole mistake

Which only lead to empty promise

-sealed with a lover's kiss untrue

Yet as I kiss each eyelid

To each tender cheek, to lips

I mean each one a thousand times

And forever I would kiss

A whole horizon for just one lonely ship

It's sails fly proud in a sea so vast

It travels, yet not from sight

Nor, alas, in touch.

In lack of choice resentment rears

My lonely ship sails on at risk

But in my limitation rides

No greater sign of fear.

For my love conceals the riggins

The decks, the crow's nest, the crew!

But my heart out on horizon's belt

Mysterious seas afont

I cannot find mistake in risk

Or in your knowledge wait

So for my Lover's Fate

I remain aloof

As love does not equate to trust.