Don't Make me Love You

 You can tempt me, you can tease me

You can vex me, you can please me

Just don't make me love you.

The mischief in your smile

The fire in yours

Caught up in your wile

Ignoring all your lies

I know the danger

But throw caution to the wind

To touch and to taste her

The redemption found in sin

One day will we twain

Crossing burning bridges to chapters yet written

Amidst pleasure and pain

I wander yet onward, not thinking clearly while smitten

Till then, let's dance

Steps set the floor ablaze

Onward in romance

Hangover, continue on in a daze

Like Lucifer Falling

In the tangible places within the heart

Scars can calcify or soul laid bare

Every journey will end and have its start

With or without your there

I'd looked into the eyes of Heaven

And wept for the beauty that shined on me

I cradled close this living angel

Dared to hope for eternity

Yet we all can stumble at our worst of times

When we feel there's nothing right that we can do

And like Lucifer I fell from the skies

For that's the moment I lost you

When the world felt like it would slip away

The axis turned and darkness enclosed

The truth of falling's awful pain

Is that you survived and you still know

Heaven continues, but without you

Damnation, the torment that never ends

Hell that we fear, I've learned this true

It's knowing you'll never see that light again

Shimmering Waters

Shimmering waters, constant upkeep

Either side of grounds maintained

Rain or shine, I lose no sleep

Each day's challenge, meant for gain

Of knowledge or opportunity

No mind has immunity

From stress or distraction

But I find my satisfaction

Fielding all the turbulence

Aces on the other side

Murphy's Law is true but it's

Perception and won't break my stride.