I set aside my passions
Waiting for your hand
Dancing in the silence
A lost and broken man
I gladly fell asleep
Denied the rising tide
Waited on the shore
For the moment you’d arrive
I changed my whole vibration
To be in tune with you
Hoping for a moment
When you would see the truth
I risked my life on chances
Forgot forever’s way
For just one final dance
Just to hear you say…
One word…
Yes.
Thrill Me Tonight – a song
[verse 1]
Walked into the crowded bar
An end to the unending week
I saw your windblown hair
As you walked in from the street
I wondered what might happen
If I asked to know your name
Hoped in that brave moment
We’d never be the same
I’ve always been a dreamer
But the dream was new tonight
I wondered if you’d save my day
And fill my lonesome night
[chorus]
Thrill me tonight
Fill me tonight
Save me from today
Fill my lonely night
Follow me tonight
I’ll show you where you live
Tell to me your name
And thrill me tonight
[verse 2]
The blur of midday ended
As day turned into night
Into your twilight eyes
Into the promised light
I crossed the crowded place
And found your starlit face
Asked you for your name
Into my night you came
I’ve always been a dreamer
But the dream came true tonight
As day turned into evening
Adorned in your beautiful sight
[chorus]
[verse 3]
We drove into the night
Top down, tunes filled the dark
You touched my tired leg
The night lept through my chest
And then began the rest
Of night’s remembered place
Gazing into starlight
Gazing at your face
The tickled insecurities
Faded into dark
As night fell into silence
And all the world fell stark
[chorus]
[verse 4]
Arriving into silence
We fell to life renewed
And life was newly mobile
Moving into grace
The fire turned to light
As colors bloomed to life
I touched your blooming rose
And kissed your waiting face
Perfection found in wonder
Exploring newfound fates
Alive in newfound wonders
Emptying our plates
[chorus]
[verse 5]
Enlivened imprecisions
As day turned into night
We flew to unknown places
Releasing all old plights
And fire turned to night
And water flowed in peace
Releasing you in silence
Screaming in release
Exploding into glory
I touched your waiting place
Started with a moment
I braved to ask your name
[chorus]
The muse is quiet
The winds move the leaves
A world set aright
In the haunting, black relief
Friends, cohorts, countrymen
A fiendish lot of fools
Arguments wandering
Bequests of long lain souls
Moss grows on the stones
But only on the north-facing sides
The debaters finding solace
In the wracking surrendered noise
Truth is a homicidal maniac
Discretion, society’s lifeblood
She held her silence close
As her long-fated rest fell
Travails fuel the fire
Passions cool the soul
Sensations fill the moment
Humanity’s flowing role
To live in the puzzles of time
Pieces scattered on a hardwood floor
Existing in pains and wonder
Searching for the stained-glass door
Images flow from agreements
Thoughts from agreements made one
Society’s actualized truths
Humanity won’t be undone
The comfort of newfallen snow
The chilling white sleepers within
Calmed in the colors of silence
Escaping humanity’s din
The ease of inventing existence
Humanity’s thoughts fuel the ire
Destroying the void of the heavens
Through joys, panes, tomorrows, and fire
Collectively walking the walk
From darkness to darkness fulfilled
The snowy white drifts of this life
Humanity’s walk toward the nil
You left, yet I remain
Dazzling white lights hinting at beyond
Dark shadows of eternal longing
A teaspoon of everything, of nil
Soul wracking collisions of karma and chi
Waves still crash on wearing rocks
Tenacity wanders in sweet silence
Begging the unmet hopes to last
You left, yet I remain
Lines of seven unsung songs
Melodious refrains, tapestries unwoven
The feast before us remains prepared
Flavors, sweet, sour, swift, tart, crisp
Mixing, melding with fallen tides
Ebbing in tremulous defects
Victorious nothings in envied retreat
You left, yet I remain
Fate’s burnt embers, hope’s final blow
Fanning the flames of unlit fires
Zealous intersection of unmet desires
Ignorant wandering thoughts set free
Imprisoned in hopes of what may still be
Vapid reflections of truth allude
Vacant eyes stare each new day
Into mirrors with no substance, all form gone astray
You’ve gone, yet still, I remain
Unable to see that which prompted
This intermission, stretching ever onward
Rejection’s players on a stage undetermined
Fate locked in your choice, set aloft
Freezing rains, sodden truths, recalling nothing
Frozen plans, dashed hopes, taunting memories
A heart stilled, imprisoned
Life divergent
From dreams we shared
And this, sadly, is as it must be
