I've lost my  "J"
I've lost my  "O"
I've lost my  "Y"
Don't you know

I've let recent
Circumstance
Dictate to
My song and dance

The Joy that
I once had
In a "****"
Up and left

I miss the  "J"
I miss the  "O"
I miss the  "Y"
That held me close

I used to wake up
In mid-smile
Ain't seen that smile
In quite a while

With no more  "J"
And no more  "O"
There's no more  "Y"
For me to hold

I hope and pray
That one day
My lost Joy
Will come back this way
And my life can convince it
this time to stay

can anyone tell me
what happens to lost love
one decided long ago
it's best to give up

does it actually
ever go away
or does it hide out
to come back another day

another day
when you least expect it
coming on strong
right where you left it

where you have grown old
the love lost has stayed young
back now with a vengeance
to hold you under its thumb

where now there's not a thing
that you can do about it
after all of these years
of living without it

i can tell you what happens
to lost love if you want me to
it comes back after years of neglect
out of hiding to haunt you

I found love, lost and forlorn
Dropped on the side of the road
What to do with it, I was torn
So I took it home

Drew a bath, cleaned it up
Welcomed it with open arm's
I want love to know itself
And that I mean no harm

With love I knew there were no rules
So no rules did I place
In loves company everything's free
And comes with a smidgen of grace

Since love's been here I've been able to share
Love would have it no other way
If you're out and about take a look around
You yourself might find love today

I found a love, lost and forlorn
Dropped on the side of the road
What to do with it, I was torn
So I took it home

Drew a bath, cleaned it up
Welcomed it with open arm's
I want the love to know itself
And that I mean no harm

With love I knew there were no rules
So no rules did I place
In loves company everything's free
And comes with a smidgen of grace

Since love's been here I've been able to share
Love would have it no other way
If you're out and about take a look around
You yourself might find a love today

There are so many souls
Running a muck
Out on a limb
Down on their luck
Playing with time as they try and piece it all together

Shows what can go wrong
When you try and go it alone
With only earthly ideas
Of whats going on
How can we predict our lives when we can't even predict the weather

Too many lives are like sailing ships passing by on a moonless night
Birds in search of food on a wingless flight
Trying time and time again to get it right

Out there like tall buildings in a city standing side by side
No way to run with nowhere to hide
Just empty shells with nobody inside

They tend to bend to the whim
Of society's call
Blind to the truth
Bugs in a jar
Surroundings are clear with no idea of how to get there

Without God on their side
To draw from in life
They keep running in place
They keep biding their time
No ones keeping score but the feeling is sure, they could do better

Too many lives are like sailing ships passing by on a moonless night
Birds in search of food on a wingless flight
Trying time and time again to get it right

Out there like tall buildings in the city standing side by side
No way to run with nowhere to hide
Just empty shells with nobody inside

You feel it at the moment
You breathe in your first breath
In the lasting memories
When Mama held your uncalloused hand

From the ever tender kiss
Placed on top your tiny head
When Daddy helped you say your prayers
Tucking you into bed

You feel it when it grabs you
In Elementary School
Knowing the full meaning when
You become its love struck fool

You find it unexpectantly
When you least expect
Feeling you've run out of time
And there is little left

It's in the warm embrace
When you are desperately in need
A family saying grace
That the good Lord keep

Between a husband and his bride
After all these many years
In both the joy and the hurt
Poured out in salty tears

You feel it when time draws near
To the ledge of eternity
As your family gathers round your bed
In the last ditch effort of comforting

It's in so many places
All at the same time
There's no other way to frame it
Love is seen world wide

How many out there
Are always searching for love
That think it comes in a package
And when they open it up
They quickly find out
It's never enough

But what love is
that some do not know
Is a seven course meal,
best not eaten alone

But then you have some
That treat love like a jewel
Where they keep it hidden away
Thinking it might get stole
So that its everlasting beauty
The heart seldom knows

When it comes to love,
that's the way that some live
Love is a treasure,
that is well worth the dig

When love comes into bloom
Some can't see the forest for the trees
The difference between love
And the over taking of weeds
Use your heart as a trowel
And tend the soil in need

*When it comes to love,
don't give up hope and know
Love is a garden with its share of weeds
but still grows

Love with all your heart
Love with all your being
Those that you agree with
Even those you don't
Love hits the mark
In its own believing
From the heart, it departs
In the way it loves

Never wrong in its dealings
The answer to all questions
Love reaches out
Pulls ******* the heartstrings
When hate raises doubt
Love fills the void
Love is the hope
That most of us long for

Love is the sound
That is forever freeing
Love in abundance
There is no stopping now
When love is around
Holding to its meaning
Love is never missing
Where love is always found

Love...
don't look the other way
in what you have to say
come visit me today

Love...
take this fragile heart
and upon it leave your mark
so I'll know where you are

Love..
with all that has been said
with all that there is left
come to me and find your rest

Love...
through all the thick and thin
from beginning to the end
it's on you that I depend

Love...
come down from the mountain top
into the valley of the lost
through this life please cross

Love...
be the water in my wake
the bonding in my break
come visit me today

Down along the coast of Carolina
Together where the green blends with blue
Land slides into the ocean
My life slid into you

That's a day I'll never forget
A lifetime I will never regret
The tears that flowed when we both met
As I fell head over heals over you

That day we made a promise that would stand the test of time
A promise formed deep down in our hearts
In that promise, forever bound is your love to mine
From which we will never depart

With the alluring sound of surf meeting shore
Introducing itself time and again
In your gentle touch I have found something more
In the love we share I have found a true friend

Down along the coast of Carolina
Together where the green blends with blue
Land slides into the ocean
My life slid into you...

Maybe I'm foolish
Maybe nieve
To draw back the curtains
To ever believe
That love at first sight
Could happen to me
This much I know to be true
But could it also happen to you

When there's someone special
The first time you see
You step up to the edge
And dive into love deep
When you find what feels right
Pretty as you please
Love at first sight can ring true
Happened to me, hopefully will also happen to you

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*No need for no others on our island of love

In every heart
there is a room
that love for others
goes running to

Though some may pass
or drift away
in every corner
a bit is saved

So love for those
that we have met
have a special spot
where we don't forget

With both Love and Hate
Being four letter words
Some try and group them
As a matter of course

While Hate loves to hate
In everything it does
Be ever so thankful that
Love knows how to love

With hate being hate
Hate ever thinks of
Love thinks of others
More than often enough

Love is always out looking
For those in need to help
With Hate siting at home
Fuming all by itself

Hate hates when love
Gets others to smile
Hate would much rather in life
See everyone frown

So while both Love and Hate
Are four letter words
They are far from each other
More than a matter of course

There's a love hate relationship
Between you and alcohol
You love the feeling you get from it
But hate the day of constant calls

It's become a daily battle
This long drawn out desire
When you say no way will I drink today
And again it makes you out the liar

It all started out so simple
Having social drinks with friends
Where the only time you drew that line
Would be on the weekends

But stress comes along in many forms
As you find sips take off the edge
Soon enough though it won't leave you alone
A little secret the bottle seems to have kept

And this battle you are fighting
Some days afraid that you might win
Where there is no denying
Deep down inside you'll miss your friend

Where there's a love hate relationship
Between you and alcohol
You love the feeling you get from it
But hate the way it too often calls

Love always hates
when there's no one to love
No where to go
to give itself up
No one around
deserving of love
But isn't that really
most all of us

It's not that love doesn't
go out of its way
In spreading itself
where ever it may
From the best parts of town
to the worst you can say
Love hates to not
give itself away

Love has stories
that love loves to tell
Especially when they're
on love itself
So don't hate on love
because love's here to help
Helping us all
above everything else

Love threw a party
invites were made
Everyone came
all except hate
With prizes galore
and door give away's
The best of all parties
the best of all days

the issues we dance with
time after time
the taking of chances
we oft do in life
it's not about you
it's more i, me, mine
if you must know the truth
it's love in decline

different as day
dark as the night
giving so much away
in hopes that we might
secure for ourselves
our own selfish desires
when over time we find
love in decline

with fists raised in anger
we fuss and we fight
not seeing the danger
in the warning signs
you can ask for it all
then hold it all tight
but still we'll all fall
with love in decline

Love is a sunrise
Love is a rose
Love is the tingle
That starts in the toes

Love is an autumn leaf
That floats on the breeze
Love comes alive
When love flutters free

Love is a car
That is always in drive
Love is a city street
That is lit up at night

Love always has
The softest of hands
And always gives into
Loves high demand

Love is a whisper
That is spoken out loud
Loves when you kiss her
In a tumultuous crowd

Love is the brightness
On a sunny day
Love is a shower
In the middle of May

Love conquers all
When love is set free
Love is a handcuff
That binds you and me

Love is an ocean
You can lose yourself in
And once you've dove in
Don't want to come back again

I've heard it said
That love is blind
Well if that's true
Then shut out the lights
I don't want to see
The rest of my life
If love is blind
Then so am I
When it comes
To loving you
As I can't see
What else there is to do
Whoever said
I'm pretty sure they knew
That in my blindness
I'd find this true
That in my blindness
I'd be loving you

Love is Brave
Love is Strong
Awaits the day
Till you come along
Ready to get
The best of us
Love is great
At the ambush

Love is Strong
Love is Brave
Love gives the best
Of itself away
Any given night
Any given day
That's the way love is
Without say

Love is Brave
Love is Strong
But will not stay
Where it don't belong
Gravitates
To what it knows
Love will go
Where love will grow

Love is Strong
Love is Brave
Love will always have
The last say
Over what to give
Over what to take
Love is Strong
Love is Brave

Love is in...

in the middle of the day
in the things we have to say
in the way we give and take
in the promises we make

Love is in...

it's never out of style
try it on for size
it fits real snug and nice
I think that you will like

Love is in...

it's too hard to ignore
if we run low we'll make some more
in different flavors that's for sure
I'll share mine and you share yours

Love is in...

Love me like a new day
As in a new beginning
Filter out the heartache
Add a whole new meaning

Love me like you found me
Like there's no tomorrow
Love me with your greatest need
A love that holds no sorrow

Love me till  you come undone
Love me like a child would
When all else fails to me you run
A love never misunderstood

Love me with all that you have
A love you give and not take back
Love me with the reason
That true love need not be said

Love me like the weekend
Like the warmth of sunshine
Love me without failing
From this moment to the end of time

I'm going to take myself in
I'm going to treat myself well
I'm going to love me for who I am
Not somebody else

I'm going to cut me some slack
Not be so ******* myself
Look what I have, not what I lack
Play the cards I am dealt

I'm going to look straight ahead
With the right attitude
Not be so concerned with the right or left
Only in what I do

I'm going to tell myself this
I'm going to tell myself that
Seal it all with a kiss
All of this I have said

Then love myself where I am at

They grabbed the future by the reigns

Right outside the wedding gate

But alas with passing years

The age of old gets hard to take

Who knew that as of late

Memories would start to wain

Both of them still feel the love

But deep inside so much has changed

In the fog of her mind

She recognizes the familiar face

But as hard as she tries

She can't recall the familiar name

He takes her by her fragile hand

Comforts her with it's okay

Your still my girl, I'm still your man

And it will always be that way

He remembers well his wedding vow

All the promises that he made

And all that heaven will allow

Though they're both now old and gray

Over the years with so much

They held on tight to the love they saved

So at this time they'd have enough

For the likes of this day

Everyone loves a love poem
One that grabs hold the heart
Takes you from the place your at
To a place you wish you were

Giving hope to all the hopeless
Those diamonds in the rough
Sprinkling stardust on the dreamers dream
All the while rhyming for the purpose of love

For love poems surrender it over
To the side of all of our dreams
Whether future or past, your first or your last
The good or the bad, it could go either way

Yes, everyone loves a love poem
One that tugs at the strings
Bringing to mind one love of a kind
But if not at least it helps with the dream

A bat needs a ball
The way a snail needs a shell
As far as I can tell
They fit together pretty well

A kite needs a string
How a finger needs a ring
The way Winter months longingly look
For the covering of spring

A book needs a read
The way a field needs a seed
Like any minute
Needs a second to help it breathe

A baby needs a bottle
A fork needs a mouth
A thought needs a cranium
To help it bounce around

A song needs a tune
Like the morning needs the dew
Where everything that is now old
At one time was brand new

Would right ever be right
If there never was a wrong
And what good would be life
If love never had a poem

I hear love's building a casino
Taking bets on itself
A few chips laid on red, the others on black
Love is set to take the house

With a quick turn of the cards
And a swift toss of the dice
Open 24/7 with inside betting
There's nothing about love that you won't like

Love will soon be making millions
Turning hands over fists
Second to none a hundred to one
It's time we all placed our bets

I love you more than ever girl
At the risk of the cliche
I'll love you more than you'll ever know
Permit me to count the ways

I'll love you more than the here and now
More than all space and time
To tell the truth I'm loving you
More than I'm loving life

I'll love you from the beginning
I'll love you to the end
And if we die and come back to life
I'll love you then again

I'll love you like a masterpiece
That's hanging on the wall
If I had to chose from all of these
I love you most of all

I'll love you like I do the truth
On that I will not lie
I'll love you with fortitude
On that I'll stake my life

And if our love should travel
I'll love you there and back
I'll also love you from the first
To the very last

I'll love you more than love itself
And I promise you no less
If you bring the jury in
My love I will confess

I'll love you on the mountain high
I'll love you valley low
I'll love you wherever ever is
Just thought that you should know

Why is love at times elusive
Why does it feel the need to hide
Why can't it come out in the open
And hold hands with you and I

Why does it claim to be adventurous
Then gets lost out in the world
Why is it when love it is I mention
Your nowhere to be found girl

Why does love take you up so high
Why does love bring you down so low
Why can't love make up it's mind
Those of us in need of love would really love to know

It brings about a change
In what we do and say
As it pulls out it's list
And starts taking names

It grabs a hold the heart
Soon beating in two parts
Making itself out to be
A finer work of art

Never does it get enough
Never is it in a rush
Loving love is what it does
Which is loves hidden love

Two souls at a distance
Brought together at its insistence
Even on the second time around
In case the first time you might have missed it

It brings about a change
As lives are rearranged
Taking out of depths dark loneliness
Into loves light of day

Never does it get enough
Never is it in a rush
Loving love is what it does
Which is loves hidden love

She's as sick of me
As I am sick of her
And of this disease
I hope there is no cure

She is all I need
Inside of my world
Never has there been a doubt
That I love this girl

In fact I am so sick
It brought me to my knees
Where it is that I proposed
Asking her hand please

Pledging her my love
From that moment out
Being this love sick
Is nothing to sneeze about

Yes her love is
What I am sick with
Hoping that I never
Do get over this

With a temperature
As high as 102
I've got myself a hardened case
The best of the love flu

I'm as sick of her
As she is sick of me
Not looking for the cure
To this love disease