More Old Poems 2
Beloved
to express how I care
when I touch just a strand
of my beloved's black hair.
And what do I say
about what my heart cannot bar
when into my loves eyes
I gaze from afar?
What do I ask for
when he's given his heart?
Something he's given
as a gift from the start...
And what do I do
when we make gentle love?-
Our bodies caressing,
our spirits soaring like doves...
I want to cry with joy
and thank the Lord above
That I have my beloved
and I am also much loved.
06-02-97 April Gray
My horrible attempt at romance lol
Why Bother
who care not for food or drink
Who care not for other people
or even if they have a place to sleep.
Why bother nourishing a body
that has a broken heart or spirit
That has a shaken mind
and no hope left in their souls?
Why bother dealing with humanity
when all humanity has ever done
is slam doors on their dreams
and spit on their desperate faces?
Why bother having a place to rest when weary
when that person dreads the night
and the dreams that come with it?
... Nightmares, day scares, no escape ...
Dreading to sleep, yet fearful to wake
for dreams reveal imagined monsters
and insanely crazy fear
But living reveals the real ones.
06-08097 April Gray
in another melancholy mood...
Tears of a child
I need your love; why can't you see?
Not only tears or endless strife
your silence cuts me like a knife.
Mommy, I'll be good today
Just never, ever go away.
I'm not found in any bottle
but I'd like a shot of mollycoddle.
I don't ask for much, you know
but through your love, I learn to grow.
Just some patience and a little time
and maybe, please, a soothing rhyme?
The kids at school have marvels to tell
about family times; how all is well.
None have a tear brimming a single eye
Why push me away the harder I try?
Haven't you guessed that I love y'all yet
or is that something that you'll never "get?"
I know you both have lives that bind
Please remember your child... don't leave me behind.
07-29-97 April Gray
melancholy once again