WHAT YOU MEAN TO ME
There is a place inside of me I keep from all the world, a special,
precious place indeed filled with diamonds, emeralds and pearls.
And each time that I am alone you see I think of all the gems, for
friends are just that special to me, and in my heart I remember them.
For they have kept the chill from me, and warmed the winters cold,
so special are the souls of those, whose laughter leads me home.
And as I gaze admidst the stars, I see them once again,
they sparkle in the midnight sky and talk with me as friends.
And in the breeze their voices call, so soft within the wind,
they whisper to me of yesterday and it takes me back to them.
I know the one's so close to me as the jewels of heavens gates, for
I learned from them the best of things, of love, and laughter and fate.
And should I lose but one of these, my heart would surely break,
each one has lit my path you see through all of life's charades.
For life would not mean as much to me if I had not known all of them,
and I would not be the person you see, if I lost even one of them.
*THANK YOU FRIENDS*
THE SPECTRE ode to "LAUDI"
Within the darkness of sorrows' hour, beneath the autumn moon, I hide amidst the rustic leaves kissed with a midnight dew.
Silently I wait to catch, a glimpse of one so rare, the sullen wolf who stalks the night in search of Love so fair.
He crosses through the brook so cool to find the meadows edge, his journey ends with what had been, but now is lost to him.
He sits alone against the stone as if it were a chair, whispering aloud with his head bowed down as if someone was there.
When he left, I followed the steps that lead him often there, I searched the ground and there I found the stone he keeps with care.
As I read my heart can see the Love that binds him there, for etched in stone I read the poem of the secret that he bears;
"BELOVED WIFE OF ALL MY LIFE, MY LAUDANUM,
YOUR WOLF IS NEAR"
