From the moment I closed my eyes
I am taken back to another place another place
A place with a special memory,
Where you and I vowed to love each other eternally.
Sharing long walks under the
Moonlit skies ,
And wishing on a falling star before it was out of sight.
We’d plan our future and how perfect our lives would be.
Pledging together we would always be.
But always changed and you left one day,
Just simply stepped out of my life and went away.
For so long I blamed it all on me,
Wondering what did I do to make you go away.
I wonder if you still at times think of me
Wonder as silly as it sounds did you ever really loved me.
The years have passed and I’ve moved on,
I have found that someone who helped me carry on.
And now when we walk under the moon lite skies,
I smile and look into his emerald green eyes,
I realize he was always there waiting for me,
Waiting, patiently and wanting to show his love for me .
LOVE can conquer all, they say
EVIL cannot prevail
LIFE is sweet when lived this way
FILL, with wind, the sail
LIFT me from this darkness, the darkness where I drown...
TILL, floating, burdens fall from me, none can weigh down.
LITE and free, oh let it be, where 'ere love can be found.
Bury the hatchet, I always say
We’ve enough firewood in the hallway
o' butterfly light
lite unto my eye color
foray flicker don't
~
do not fade spun so
ever more around me so
cavalcade beauty
~
beautiful flowing
so butterfly butterfly
nigh! don't fly away
2/6/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
When I gaze up at the evening sky (by the way I think everybody should)
I’m often reminded of my younger days…back in my childhood.
Back when I played with my Lite Brite…for often I would sigh…when I saw the constellations I created…back when I controlled the sky.
And I wonder if ancient astrologers gazing up into the night…were as enamored with what they saw…as I was with my Lite Brite.
Back when I played connect the dots…when it wasn’t always clear…when I started to connect them…what picture would appear.
And I wonder how long it took ancient astrologers to make the correlation…to connect the dots of light across the sky and form the constellations.
I don’t think it crazy or in the least bizarre…to think there was a little bit of child in those ancient astrologers as they gazed up at the stars
Perhaps they formed their beliefs…and found answers to the question why…by playing, in their own way, with their Lite Brite in the sky.
Gazing at the constellations tonight…I’m filled with a host of childhood thoughts…which makes me want to thank those ancient astrologers…for connecting all those dots.
Oh!
the lite-bulb
blinked
it did
I felt it
but what was it
and where is it now
or light is too fast ~
or truth never lasts
If you wanted my beating heart
You should’ve treated it right from the start
Yet you set me on fire
cause you hate yourself
Watched my burning pyre
As you berate yourself
Now my carcass smolders
In the ashes of
What sickens me to call our love
It gives me glee to see
It blow away in the wind
As if it was never there to begin
And at last I am free again
Some people are up to no good
And seldom behave like they should
When in Tinseltown
They let their hair down
Knowing starlets like Holly would
A lite-pink band in the sky
midst powdery baby-blue
I thought to myself, 'But why?'
Does it herald the birth of a girl
cared for by five loving brothers
Or perhaps it's a cotton-candy twirl
Could it foretell an early flamingo season
one where the brightly colored birds
Flock up north here where it's still freezin'
Or maybe the sky is suggesting I buy --
so my girl's not infected with the blues --
A bouquet of pink roses as a surprise
And pray she doesn't ask, 'But why?'
be bright oh! bright star;
twinkle within the night-shine;
glow often always;
She takes the stars up in the sky
And connects their dots at night
Like a giant Etch A Sketch
Her own Galaxy Lite-Brite
Using neon highlighter
All the colors she can find
Drawing close the Cosmos
She closes both her eyes
Adding a bit of the abstract
She changes hands from left to right
On this giant Etch A Sketch
Her own Galaxy Lite-Brite
Not just a plastic peg
You reflect the light below
Born into a guiding template
Cast members for the show
We play until our light burns out
Game rules as old as time
Look within and find the source
A true self paradigm
Summer sky's have never seem so dark
I think I'm tearing us apart
My past is to deep to keep us hear
Listing to the birds chirp as the sun rise
Seeing the moon fade away and hide
with me suffocated in your arms
Wrapped so tight around me it is my only security
Because if I am not lying in you bed I don't feel safe
If your not whispering sweet nothing in my ears
Then what should I face
The truth
No because the truth is that you don't love me
The truth is that I don't love you
We just love the thought of each other
And that I can blame my self . but the only time we connect is when you are inside of me
If your are not There I don't feel nothing
But a bottom less pit of what ifs.
What if you actually love me
What if I told you the truth
What if we actually gave a damn
What if you could be the proof
that love actually exists
In this crooked twisted world that we live in
But its time to put up the toys . and stop telling white lies
And stop playing pretend
because if you begin with a lie that is how it will end
And I am done with living my life in sin
I can see it in his face in his walk in his grace by the way he looks me in my eyes a blaze so deep a vision in my eyes that melt me weak I hear it in his voice the tone he speaks I lite his life
I can tell by the way he's holding on to me like I'm the woman who jus walked out his dreams by the way his actions shout louder than his words by the way he puts my needs first I lite his life
I feel it in every kiss nothing but passion left tingling on my lips not a day goes by I'm feeling some broken hearted kinda of way cause a man in love will never leave his women in that state I lite his life
I know for certain a happy man will go out of his way to make certain he keeps a smile on his women's face well sunshine glows from my forehead to my chin and day by day that's the reality I'm living I lite his life
He doesn't have to say it in so many words its how he is with me that reveals first the depth of his emotion far beyond strong a rythnm from my favorite love song and being in his arms is a feeling I refuse to give up day by day watching him fall in love I lite his life....
When I see your smile
I see a smile that's true
When I see a smile
That knows what I've been through
When I see that smile
Covered with a frown
I know that frown
Is longing for my smile
Smiles are allways waiting
To see your lovely face
Smiles that never doubt
Your loving heart and grace
For you a smile is waiting
No matter what you do
A smile that knows the secrets
About me and you
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