Absence Of Free Will

It is not that I am torn

It is more that my mind

Seems to go

Just wherever it damned well chooses

I have been in love before

I am in love again now

Images & memories

Which my mind frequently abuses

If on occasions forlorn

If caught on barbs that bind

I am resigned to follow her

Just wherever she damned well pleases

If to think of the spotlit dance floor

To shuffle so lightly how

With footsteps and body sways

She poses, she teases

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Escape

Without words

A mind filled to overflowing

With maps and images

Famous painters

And women's breasts

Still mountain mists

From the east of Saigon

Enter

Into the night time

Wait for quiet to fall

Darkness to take her shadows

Memories of dusk clamber

For your erstwhile attention

Detention is worth the call

From the rest of the world

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Thin Air

The words hold themselves

I have no way of propulsion

You, where my thoughts go

Might be scared that they lie

Unable to hold or elucidate

I can only wish of their lost ether

Readers, in the lonely rooms

Call out; this is another lovers cry

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Aznavour

She

Woman of man's life

Where would we be without 

Her otherwise attractions

He

Man of woman's life

Who would otherwise

Share less undue distractions

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Glow If You Dare

Flames are lowered

Gentle curve of decay amongst the embers

Turn pages of the picture books

Remember those past  Decembers

Lend her the lyric hooks

Sing songs of joy and tenderness

Suppress at once the negative looks

That is no way to send her

Fend off your depression

Close up the downbeat books

With the light of impression

Share her romantic nooks and crannies

Play her Danny and the Champions of the World

Swirl her on to the dance floor

The more you shout, folklore edicts the damsel fair

Rare as sacred through wild air

Care of the curved decay

Whose lowered tones blend her wishes

Superstitious as she has become

Run now, run your words down to the floor

The core is gone

The story flickered, lest it shone

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