Promises made
Are promises kept
On the alter of I do

From the time we have
To the time that's left
I'll be here for you

From this very day
To come whatever may
You can stand on that truth

My love will remain
Even when time grows late
I'll be here for you

I'll be the path
The guiding hand
To hold and help you through

With a love that's the same
Never to change
I'll be here for you

It is my hope
That we both grow
Old together and as we do

Above everything else
Until the lights shut out
I'll be here for you

Allow me the pleasure
Of all you go through
Beyond all measure
Of giving to you

If you're hidden in darkness
I'll be the light
If your dreams become hopeless
I'll come to mind

If you're ever caught
Without something to say
I'll be the thought
That takes you away

Whenever you're lonely
I'll be the one
You'll feel like you know me
As you do your home

If ever in life  
You make a mistake
I'll be the pencil
That helps you erase

On the days that you lose
All of your hope
I'll be the knot
At the end of your rope

If you ever wonder
Or feel like questioning why
On the days that it thunders
I'll inquire of the sky

When life gets to hetic
And it gets hard to breathe
When all that you're left with
Is all of your needs

I'll be the need...

I've got this grand idea
Though it ain't nothing new
We've all easily heard
But have hardly followed through

So I'll say it once again
In case some of you have missed the clue
Why don't I just do me
And you stick with doing you

It's hard enough keeping up
With what is going down
In keeping tabs on what we have
If our heads are spinning round

In this and that direction
Wondering what the other is up to
That's why I say I'll just do me
And you stay true to you

Going back to the simple fact
Of peace and harmony
Which at our bequest will work out best
If we leave each other be

For whom this bell loudly tolls
We'll see that it rings true
If I just keep on doing me
And you keep on doing you

I've got all the tools and tricks of the trade
To accomplish things that I've wanted
Sometimes proud of the mess that I've made
Most times without even knowing

Where I might have had a judgment lapse
On the when and where I got here
Often think that I can but then again
I come off as ill prepared

I try and plan it all ahead
Plan the best that I can
Cross the I's dot the T's till there's nothing left
Were nothing left is all that I have

Though I too often fumble
I still grin ear to ear
It's not hard to be that humble
When you come into it ill prepared

I take my tools through the twists and the turns
Tweaking when there is a need
Lessons given should be lessons learned
Although lessons given, never are free

If it looks like I've got it together
There's a smoke screen that needs to be cleared
In this life of happily ever after
I'm no more than ill prepared

I'm a victim of illusion
Your slight of hand no man can see
Leaves me in a state of confusion
As you remove the heart in me

I'm a victim of your magic
Power over life or death
One word from you, what that word would do
Leaves me with little if nothing else

Your an act no man can follow
And still I stand in line
With the aching wish that I would be your pick
Your illusion forever, with you forever mine

I started out as a child
Knowing wrong from right
As I grew old and began to unfold
Somehow somewhere I lost sight

From the path that I was taking
To the road that I was on
No matter there's no mistaking
I lost the way to the way I had known

Easy said is easy done
Until there's nothing left
I found myself more lost than found
Most of all inside of my head

With there being no worse feeling
Than that of being alone
All I had for counsel was a blank celling
When I lost the way to the way I had known

My best guess is that the first step
Is coming clean with the truth
Then doing something about it
Pretty sure is step number two

Back again at the beginning
At this age might look strange to some
But it's hard to make a living
When you've lost the way to the way you had known

i lost yesterday

and there's no way to get it back

i let it slip out of my hands

before i even had a chance

to learn from my past mistakes

that i could have corrected yesterday

now it's to late to have my say

when...

i lost yesterday

Right here right now I'll speak the truth
That I love me and you love you
Though we both know that it should be
I love you and you love me

As selfish as this all may sound
There's so much of it that goes around
If I don't love me then who will
I'm the only one that fits the bill

What we say and what we do
Is not so much the hidden truth
It's easy to be apart of the group
Of I love me and you love you

I'm sure it comes as no surprise
The way we feel in our own eyes
No need to look around and see
I only want what's best for me

It's in the nature of this man
To want to be the main event
Yet still there's hope one day we'll see
That I love you and you love me

Give me some
Give me more
Give me all the literature
I could ever read

Give me books
Give me pads
Give me anything you have

Be it Twain
Be it King
Be it almost anything

From the front
To the back
Till there is nothing of it left

Give me hope
In their notes
Give me anything they wrote

Be it fact
Or fantasy
Fiction mixed with biography

Be it Plath
Be it Poe
Be it here or on the go

Be it hit
Or be it miss
There's a novel of ideas

So give me some
Give me more
Give me all the literature
I could ever read

If I could go back
To the day that we met
You know what I would do

I'd still say hey
Tell you my name
Then say that I love you

Why take up the years
It took to get here
To come up with that truth

Now that I've thought it out
Beyond a shadow of doubt
That's exactly what I would do

The day I said hey
And told you my name
I would tell you that I love you

If I could go back
To the day that we met
You know what I would do

I'd still say hey
Tell you my name
Then say that I love you

Why take up the years
It took to get here
To come up with that truth

Now that I've thought it out
Beyond a shadow of doubt
That's exactly what I would do

The day I said hey
And told you my name
I would tell you that I love you

I sat down to write you
A letter of my love
Because when I think of you
I can never get enough

I love you dear like the morning clearly
Loves the coming sun
I love you more than x 2
You are my #1

I love you like the mocking bird
Loves to hear birds sing
Because when they do their song rings true
You mean that much to me

I love you like a passenger train
Loves the humming of the tracks
I love you all the way there then
I love you coming back

I love you from the beginning
I love you to the end
I love you through the thick of it
I love you through the thin

I love you like Tupelo
Blossoms in the Spring
I love your laugh like its flower that
Is tickled by honey bees

I'll make it clear I love you dear
Just the way you are
I love you more than ever
More than the beating of my heart

I love you like there's no tomorrow
Where there only is today
Where you and me are the only thing
I love you more than I can say

I'm Afraid when I start this poem
From the moment that I begin
I'm Afraid I will get to the point
Where I won't be able to end

But here goes...

I'm Afraid of the darkness
I'm Afraid of the light
I'm Afraid that all my wrongs
Will never work out right

I'm Afraid that I will
I'm Afraid that I might
I'm Afraid that one day
I'll be asked the question why

I'm Afraid to inhale
and exhale the air that I breath
I'm Afraid of what is real
and what is make believe

I'm Afraid the colors are bleeding
In the Red, White, and the Blue
I'm Afraid of the ever increasing lies
Hidden inside of the decreasing truth

I'm Afraid of my neighbor
I'm Afraid of the neighbors dog
I'm Afraid that there's more to this
Ever growing cough

I'm Afraid to answer
The shrill ring of my telephone
I'm Afraid that the end
When it arrives will be a brick wall

I'm Afraid of this life
I'm Afraid of it's death
I'm Afraid of the thoughts
That keep bouncing in my head

I'm Afraid of you
I'm Afraid of me
I'm Afraid of what I can
and what I can not see

I'm Afraid of being Afraid
Which makes me more Afraid
I'm Afraid that one day
I'll run out of things to say
Which makes me even more Afraid

I'm afraid of the above
More often than not enough

I'm afraid of the air that I breathe
I'm afraid that they're watching me

I'm afraid of going outside
Whether it's day or whether it's night

I'm afraid of the lurking shadow
Especially if it's my own

I'm afraid of the very fact
Of the courage that I lack

I'm afraid of getting sick
Cause I'm afraid of the medicine

I'm afraid of the outcome
Before I've even begun

I'm afraid I may be too late
Which makes me more afraid

I'm afraid that if I had one
I might lose it and then I'd have none

I'm afraid that you may find
What it is that I'm really like

And I'm afraid that once you do
That you'll be afraid too

I'm a poet

And I know it

I make a rhyme

I make a rhyme...........

Oh crap!

I'm thinking it's pretty clear
Pretty soon I'll be outta here
Going to buy a white van, with plastic rims
Then magically disappear

Blacken all the windows out
Leaving behind no doubt
That this creepy van with mysterious man
Wants nor needs no one around

From now on it's going to be
Me, just little ole me
My mess of a past you'll have to guess
As it'll be history

Moving from state to state
Only stopping long enough for luncheon plates
Buying up milk cartons along the way
So they'll not recognize my face

No one will know who I am
If mum's the word and nothing is said
Just another disillusioned man
That has taken life on the lam

That is why first chance I can
I'm going out and buying a van
Fill it with gas, the few possessions I have
Where you'll never see hide nor hair of me again

Yes it's true I'm cheating on you
Blatantly with another site
I'm so enamored by her poetry
We're now hanging out  in broad daylight

I keep going back and forth
Between both you and it
Pouring out poetry deep from my heart
Now I'm not sure I can ever quit

I do feel a tad bit guilty
This sharing of my poetic love
But like you heard, with the written word
I can't seem to get enough

She accepts me for who I am
Even welcomed me with open arms
I was thinking the whole time in the back of my mind
What could possibly be the harm

Now I feel I'm in way to deep
To swim out of this cheaters stream
The current is swift and the banks are steep
Guess I'll just drown in sweet misery

I'm so glad to get this off of my chest
Perhaps it'll take away some of the guilt
Although I sometimes hang with that other harlot
I want you to know I love you still

Yes the rumors are true that I'm cheating on you
With another poetry site
A month ago who would have known
I'd have more than one mistress  in my life

Ask how I am most anytime
I'll tell you that I'm doing fine
Whether or not that is the truth
That is what I always do

All my walls crumbling down
Shaky feet on rocky ground
Death knocking hard at my door
My day is fine, how is yours

Feet in the fire, heart on ice
Struggling just to get by
To tell the truth forget the facts
Doing fine now that you ask

What do I hope when asked by those
And do they really want to know
Don't they answer much the same
When they're asked how they are doing

Whether fried, boiled, broiled, or baked
I try not to give too much away
If you don't dive in too deep
I am fine if you ask me

If you need any proof that I'm funny
I come to you with a laugh track
You can borrow from me till you're red in the knee
Then after the laugh you can give it back

Because the jokes that I tell are quite funny
Well at least they are in my head
Swirling behind my eyes trying to find the punchline
Till they spill out with the last laugh

Say have you heard that I'm funny
By now I'm The Talk of the Town
To make it more simple just call me Comedy Central
As I continue to wipe tears from this clown

That's it I've had it
Tired of being ignored with a wink on the side
I'm tired of being told what old men should do
Going to start taking life on the flea..or is that the fly

I'm going to hit the streets of the city
And be known as that cool guy that raps
After I add a tad bit more Poligrip
So my dentures can get down with that

I'll get me a ball cap and turn it sideways
My pants already hang down past my crack
I'll even learn the latest catch phrase
Like, Hey dude..what's up wit dat?!

Think I'll even rhinestone my walker
For that little extra bling, bling
They'll say check out that crazy rapper daddy-o
Man that cat can really swing

I'll keep the lyrics clean like I do my diaper
That's why I bring my nursie with me
After all she's a wonderful wiper
Don't worry I pay the extra wiping fee

I'll also get her to hold up the cue cards
Since my memory over the years has waned
No longer to be known as that old white *******
Beating JZ at his own game

I'll get jiggy with it every chance I get
As I fizizzile my way to the top
I'll be bigger than that guy with the candy name
That young whipper snapper will melt in the hands of this rapping GrandPop

That's it I've had it
Tired of being ignored with a wink on the side
I'm tired of being told what old men should do
Going to start taking life on the flea..or is that the fly

I'm going to hit the streets of the city
And be known as that cool guy that raps
After I add a tad bit more Poligrip
So my dentures can get down with that

I'll get me a ball cap and turn it sideways
My pants already hang down past my crack
I'll even learn the latest catch phrase
Like, Hey dude..what's up wit dat?!

Think I'll even rhinestone my walker
For that little extra bling, bling
They'll say check out that crazy rapper daddy-o
Man that cat can really swing

I'll keep the lyrics clean like I do my diaper
That's why I bring my nursie with me
After all she's a wonderful wiper
Don't worry I pay the extra wiping fee

I'll also get her to hold up the cue cards
Since my memory over the years has waned
No longer to be known as that old white *******
Beating JZ at his own game

I'll get jiggy with it every chance I get
As I fizizzile my way to the top
I'll be bigger than that guy with the candy name
That young whipper snapper will melt in the hands of this rapping GrandPop

Who can say
That I'm to blame
For loving the way
She calls my name

Could it be
I've reached the peak
Of ecstasy
When she kisses me

Draw out the plans
Strike up the band
Don't want to land
When she holds my hand

Paradise
Is what I find
Every time
I gaze in her eyes

I fall in deep
Bounds and leaps
Into her sea
When she looks back at me

No, if's and's or but's
She's the one
Thank you very much
I'm in love

My new girl can't resist
Scares me every chance she gets
From out the closet, underneath the bed
My poor heart can't take much more of this

Applies makeup in the shade of Goth
To leather and chains she gives a nod
Don't know what else I can do
Since I fell in love with a girl named Boo

Loves the night more than she does the day
Underneath a full moon if she had her way
A lone wolfs howl is music to her ears
Look her in the eye but never show your fear

Wishes everyday was Halloween
She loves to hear those goblins scream
If you all must know the truth
I fell real hard when I fell for Boo

She likes to sneak up on my love
Scaring me with a willful nudge
She tastes like Boysenberry wine
Be careful though because she bites

With hair blood red and clothes dark black
She'll take your soul and not give it back
It all is in her attitude
Do you need more proof why I love Boo

Where did she go this time
This seamstress of the rhyme
Did she just up and quit
Had enough of it
Decided to move on
Flipping the silver coin
That came up on heads
So that is why she left

Where did she up and go
This seamstress of the poem
Did she even bid farewell
Tell us all to go to...
Hello are you out there
I'm in my underwear
That may be T.M.I.
What I won't do for a rhyme

Why did she have to part
This seamstress of poetic art
Since the day she went away
Things round here ain't been the same
Sitting here wondering what is up
Cause I miss Deborah very much

Oh and the part about me in my underwear now burned into your mind
Any good Shrink could erase that given enough money and time

I used to love you
When you were in your darkened mood
When you were down right depressed
Never giving the day a rest
Can't tell you how you blessed
When you were in your darkened mood

When you wrote of suicide
How it seemed to bring you life
Your written feelings brought me to tears
As you recounted your lost lonely years
Although I'm thankful that your still here
When you wrote of suicide

Now that you seem to have found someone
It appears your darkened days are all but gone
I'm wondering would it be that bad
If I secretly hope he treats you like crap
So the dark side of poetry can have you back
Before the day you found someone

I'm losing it
Standing at the precipice
One foot out in the open
The other stepping off of the ledge

I'm losing it
Falling now as fast as I can
Not exactly what I was hoping
But one that I have grown to expect

I'm losing it
What little I tend to have left
These days I'd say I'm barely coping
And with all of that being said

I'm losing it
Standing at the precipice
One foot out in the open
The other stepping off of the ledge

I swear I'm not a stalker
I just wondered where you lived
How you dressed away from work
And on your off hours what you did

I know you think it's crazy
I keep following you around
Dressed  last week as a Dive Instructor
This week as a Circus Clown

I don't want you to get suspicious
And perhaps call up the cops
Last time it was I talked with them
They looked at me as if I were nuts

I enjoy watching you eat dinner
As I count each delicious bite you take
With my face plastered to the window
A little disturbed you haven't introduced me to your date

Let us just continue playing slyly
He looks like the jealous type
He wouldn't understand what it is we have
Anyway pretty soon he'll be out of sight and out of mind

We'll just go about our business
Like on any other day
You do whatever it is you do
I'll follow every step you take

Did I mention I wasn't a stalker?
Just wanna make sure you heard
Cause the last time it is I attempted this
All the Doctors said that I was cured

The more I deal with you
The more I see the truth
In what I've found as time rolls round
That I'm not good enough for you

When I sit back, relax, look at the facts
They only stir me to think
Do you love me for the man I am
Or just for sympathy

With either way I'm okay
Though we still both know the truth
After all this time there's no sense in lying
I'm not good enough for you

With you being the beauty
And me playing the beast
I once again go back to where I was at
Why are you still here with me

Cause we both know the secret told
Is not the best of hidden truth
As I have seen and still to this day believe
That I'm not good enough for you

Alright no one here leaves
Until I get back my monkey
He was right here beside me
When we sat down at the bar

He got up to use the restroom
Cause my monkey is not uncouth
I KNOW he didn't just drive off
I still have the keys to the car

We were having the best of times
Telling jokes and making up zoological rhymes
He even passed around that picture
You know the one with the orangutan in that embarrassing position

That's the last time I saw him
My monkey...my best friend
Will somebody help me look please
These tears have all but blurred my vision

I've now checked every zoo on the East coast
Every circus that I know
Thinking perhaps he was monkeynapped
By some clown or zoological freak

I haven't seen hide nor hair
Of a clean shaven monkey in underwear
I told you he wasn't uncouth
My monkey learned that from me

These days I cry in my beer
Since my monkey's no longer here
I guess Doodles had better things
To do with his life

If my monkey, Doodles you ever do see
Will you tell him I miss him oodles for me
And that I've accepted the fact that he's not coming back
And that I'll be alright...

With Chemtrails in the Conspiracy sky
Birds that fly on missions to spy
You really have to wonder why
How this long we have survived

Subliminal messages on the T.V.
Vaccines as bad as the disease
Here come the swarm of Killer Bees
Another warning, sight unseen

Other birds that have the flu
And the Sly Swine that have it too
And here we are without a clue
What is a poor soul supposed to do

About the oceans on the rise
Is this at all real or the latest A.I.
It's hard to tell todays truth from the lies
As U.F.O.'s invade our skies

With the chemicals pumped into the food
Yellow dyes, reds, and blues
Corner camaras recording our every move
Even the phone is watching you

Every day we see the many signs
Yet they say don't believe your lying eyes
Is anyone else as a surprised as I
How long in this mess we have survived

You say  your not religious
Well neither my friend am I
It was man that made religion
It was Christ that came for us to die

He came to earth with a purpose
And that purpose was to set us free
From the guilt, the sin, the daily shame
All chains of captivity

It was the religious leaders of his day
That used their power as a tool
It was Jesus that came to do away
With all the man made rules

Rules that held the people down
The same as they do today
Invite Jesus into your heart right now
And let freedom have its way

You say your not religious
Well neither my friend am I
It was man that made religion
It was Christ that came for us to die

You say your not religious
Well neither my friend am I
It was man that made religion
It was Christ that came for us to die

He came to earth with a purpose
And that purpose was to set us free
From the guilt, the sin, the daily shame
All chains of captivity

It was the religious leaders of his day
That used their power as a tool
It was Jesus that came to do away
With all the man made rules

Rules that held the people down
The same as they do today
Invite Jesus into your heart right now
And let freedom have its way

You say your not religious
Well neither my friend am I
It was man that made religion
It was Christ that came for us to die

Come 6 o'clock
There's the turn of the lock
As her key slips in the door

That's the moment when
I start wondering
Where she was again the night before

Always with the excuse
She loves to use
Out on the town with her girlfriends

If I've heard it once
I've heard it more than enough
No need to hear it all over again

As she floats past the bed
I'm playing dead
The same with our love life

Hard pressed to say when
Or how long it has been
Since we shared this bed at night

I could question it all
As I'm played for the fool
Though not the only pawn in her game

If you think about
There is somebody else
On the other side she must treat the same

Few could say they've had it all
That's exactly where I was before
But where I was, was in the world
And I'm not there anymore

The constant struggle to stay on top
Close to the edge, afraid of the drop
The moving and shaking that never would stop
I'm not there anymore

Counting rungs on the climb to success
Falling up would be my best guess
Lost in thought over the constant quest
I'm not there anymore

Lucky to some but unlucky in love
To gain it all, I ended with none
Fought too hard to hardly have won
I'm not there anymore

A lightning bolt hit me by surprise
Tore my heart, turned my sight
Away from the world to all that is right
Now I'm working for the Lord

Because I'm not there anymore...

They flip and fly in all directions
As they **** their victims dry
So untamed and fearless
Feeding undisturbed in broad daylight

They hang outside our homes and city parks
Nowhere is it I feel safe
I'll see them flutter by the corner of my eye
How much longer must I play this charade

After years I'm breaking my silence
To tell the world it freaks me out
When they light upon the innocent
And that long black tongue comes sliding out

I've had this fear from early childhood
And countless doctors don't know why
I always faint and then I wet myself
At the very sight of the dreaded..."Butterfly"

tired and worn down
within and without
leaving no doubt
lost and not found

accepting my fate
too little too late
what progress i've made
no one can say

gotten myself into this fix
till i'm about well over it
i've been hit so much that i miss
life beyond all of this

tired and worn down
like the smile of a clown
once they've figured out
the circus has left town

with the time that it takes
these days to get a break
never early, never late
keeping it all at bay

tired and worn down
much too late i've found this out
tired and worn down
lost and never found

They tossed the golden ring I never caught
Whether or not it was my own fault
Right here, right now is where I'm at
As life gets set for another lap

I can clearly see what's in front of me
Being this close to the dead end street
Miles ago I'd hoped for a cul-de-sac
But imagine that, there ain't no turning back

I'm tired of what these times have done to me
Bent so long you knew I'd break eventually
Which makes me even tireder still
The bend and break of a man's beaten will

At what point did I lose my belief
That the grasp I had would help me to succeed
Did I let go at the last bump in the road
With so many potholes we may never know

It's hard to see through the crack in the windshield
These bitter days what is fake and what is real
As the crack continues widening in its gap
Until the day there won't be any protection left

I'm tired of the same old grind from day to day
And the optimistic crowd that says it'll be okay
I'm tired of this as much as I'm tired of that
Tired of the life that fits all of these facts

You say I'm just feeling sorry for myself
But if I didn't I wonder then who else
Seems I'm stuck inside this all alone
This house I've built that'll never be a home

Which brings me back to the golden ring
Where all I've ever been is a working machine
Taking my fingers down to the bone
Which makes any grasp that much harder to hold

I'm tired of the ups that only let me down
The promise of much that's never ever found
Any fool can see where I'm clearly at
And those that don't well I'm even tired of that

When you stop to think, would death be better than life... Then you know you're tired

I'm writing you a love poem
One to call your very own

With how I feel about you in it
Before my love to you I give it

Like holding my heart in your hands
As you read what this poem says

Filled with special meaning
As to you I pour out my feelings

It's sure to blossom as it grows
This love poem that's your very own

Nothing will be left unsaid
In the love that this poem gives

This love poem that I'm writing
In perfect harmony and timing

The more I write the more I'm finding
Flows with love in its rhyming

I just wanted you to know
I'm writing you a love poem

Can't help but follow you
Wherever it is you go
I'm your biggest fan
Thought you might want to know

I watch your every move
Been everywhere you've been
That my love is just how much  
It is to me you mean

Oh, I almost forgot
So I don't cause a fright
That is my wild eye reflection
In your window every night

It's a part of what I do
A big part of my plan
As I spend my days with you
As your biggest fan

I have a lock of hair
I bought off eBay
Would you mind if I stopped by
Just to authenticate

What I bought was ***** blonde
When I know you are brunette
Though they both look good on you
On top your pretty head

Are you dating anyone
Have a love that's true
Cause I could be that special one
That special one for you

I've already been on your tour bus
That was my lipstick heart in the back
In fact right now I'm writing this
From atop the luggage rack

Remember when you looked at me
I was in the 18th row
It was like we shared a secret
That only you and I both know

That secret being I'm here for you
I know you understand
You and I were meant to be
Cause I'm your biggest fan

Can't help but follow you
Wherever it is you go
I'm your biggest fan
Thought you might want to know

I watch your every move
Been everywhere you've been
That my love is just how much  
It is you mean to me

Oh, I almost forgot
So I don't cause a fright
That is my wild eye reflection
In your window every night

It's a part of what I do
A big part of my plan
As I spend my days with you
As your biggest fan

I have a lock of hair
I bought off eBay
Would you mind if I stopped by
Just to authenticate

What I bought was ***** blonde
When I know you are brunette
Though they both look good on you
On top your pretty head

Are you dating anyone
Have a love that's true
Cause I could be that special one
That special one for you

I've already been on your tour bus
That was my lipstick heart in the back
In fact right now I'm writing this
From atop the luggage rack

Remember when you looked at me
I was in the 18th row
It was like we shared a secret
That only you and I both know

That secret being I'm here for you
I know you understand
You and I were meant to be
Cause I'm your biggest fan

who pushed fast forward
on the button life
to time set before us
crazily speeding by
i rather enjoyed the slo-mo
with its less stress and strife
we're all in a hurry
with no reason why

seems to me to be moving
at the speed of light
making us all loopy
with no tail to this kite
flipping and a flopping
with all of its might
we're all in a hurry
with no reason why

with the righteous attitude
of to do or die
kicking in our screaming
screaming in mid-flight
like we have somewhere to be
but barely have the time
we're all in a hurry
with no reason why