Saturday, February 18, 2012

How I Adore You

You're the pinnacle of my desire for love
the culmination of struggle and anguish
In you I found rebirth
I was set free from the captivity of foolish loving
and born again in despair
I have tasted the essence of the Atonement in you
and languished in hope and fought to keep it
There is not a fibre in me that does not love you
You are the Northern Star to which I set my life towards
How great the capacity I have acquired for love
I have been reborn in a new type of beauty
It is rare and stricken in grief and longing
You're the absolution
the astounding miracle of life
You teach me of love and hope and freedom and forgiveness
and you are barely here at all
How much more could you change me if you were always at my side?
I should think I would burn into a star
to which other hope filled lovers set their sites on
If I ever knew anything at all of love, it was erased in you
and reborn into freedom
How I adore you, there are no words, but the solemn whisperings of my soul
These things, these things you do not know
My lips cannot utter how very profound your presence in my life has become
If ever I erred, it was in not loving you sooner

A Large Pebble

The wind ravishes this soul of mine, this breath of mine
it leaves and in its place remains a stone
heavy, round and bitter
the absence of what was needful is now just a large pebble
If I could grasp onto the hope that was once within me
and harness it like wind
I should like to think I could safely love again
where my soul would be free and alive and floating on the tendrils of clouds
but no, 'tis a stone
heavy, round and bitter
and the absence of what is needful; just a large pebble
and stilled
like an abandoned home after the storms
How can I recover from such things?
My hands are cold and my chest is a cavern and I am a pit of hopelessness
where wind doth rage unstoppably cold
and left is only a stone
a large pebble
heavy, round and bitter

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Built Sleep

"Sleep"

Rest your head by the sea
Sleep, oh sleep away from me
Near the city of Angels
Rest your weary head
and dream
Come tomorrow dawn the day with hope and laughter
Come tomorrow brighter, better and here after
We will look back upon these days
and know how much has changed
for the better
Rest those eyes
Sleep and please realize
As you're near the great Pacific
Rest your weary head
near the ocean tides
Come tomorrow dawn the day with hope and laughter
Come tomorrow, brighter, better for here after
We can look back upon these days
and know all that has changed
for the better
So, sleep, sleep, sleep and enjoy dreams
I will sleep here near mountain streams
You near the grandest of oceans, rest your eyes
I will sleep away from you but I realize
Come tomorrow dawns a new day with hope and laughter
Tomorrow will be brighter and better for here after
We will look back upon all these days
and know how much has changed
and it's better


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"Built"

I was built to listen and to think
You might have been built to make me sink
You might have been built to break down my walls
You might have been built to drown out my calls
But I was built to stand with a light
You were built with brilliant eyes for sight
So use your eyes and if you would like to follow me
I was built to be a beacon and placed by your sea
You were built to carry the weight in your vessel
You were built with troubles for you to wrestle
I was built to say I'm here to be your guide
You were built to last and I'm still on your side
I was built to listen and I'm lonely
I was built to shine and sometimes to sing
You might have been built to try to break me apart
But you were built to make me try harder to use my heart
I was built to say all that is true
You were built for bravery in what you do
I was built to be a guide right here
Built strong and steady with a purpose clear

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Rain, stone, ashes and a flag for love

The rain is falling on the roof here
and I alone
not thinking clear
wish simply to
be held be you
but I do fear
a heart of stone
inside your chest; if I come near

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"Ashes"

I am like spectre haunting these walls within
My whole perception seems so very grim
I was hoping for an unbroken heart
This never seems to be my way
It's always ashes
I am choking on the wishes spilling from my lips
Thinking of what might have happened with a kiss
I am realizing broken hearts kill
This is the way of things
It's always ashes
I am wandering lost inside like I'm floating
I can't grasp the life without hurting
I see my broken heart behind my eyes
There is never a chance for me
It's always ashes

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"Fly A Flag of Love"

Photographs can't bring it back
Can't make it right
Can't bring the glad
So I will hold high aloft
This flag for you
To say I love
I will march the road alone
Until you come back home
I will, banner in hand, sing your name
and carry photographs each day
I can't feel the joy like I did
Or feel the glad things, but
I will fly a flag for you
To say I love
I will walk the road on my own
Until you come back home
I will, banner in hand, sing your name
and I hope you'll do the same

By Elizabeth Azpurua