Question Is, Why Am I Attracted

You are everyone
You are here
In all, and in everyone

You shake your head
You lay on the bed
You dip your toe
I watch you slow
You are everyone
You are in all, and in everyone

You close your eyes
You look surprised
You pout your lips
I touch your fingertips
You are everyone
You are in all, and in everyone

You stand in line
You smile so fine
You run and wave
I choose to stay
You are everyone
You are in all, and in everyone

You sit and pose
You sense the rose
You wade and look
I am the brook
You are everyone
You are in all, and in everyone

Your dress unfurls
Your hair in curls
Your curves on cue
I once was you
You are everyone
You are in all, and in everyone

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Working

Through skyscraper streets
Awash with fame
A zillion stars, amassed
Armies on the celestial plane
The night is clear
I call your name
You are so near
I call out your name

They move as one, mimicking
Passengers for the downtown train
The moment moved, passed on
They sadly dance to a quiet refrain
The night is clear
I call your name
You are so near
I call out your name

I hear the swirling wind
Tear at the husks of grain
I am but a country boy, caught
Out by an innocents stain
The night is clear
I call your name
I thought you were near
And, again I called your name

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Exposure

The river flows
Over rocks and trees
It flows with vigour
As if life itself
Is being stripped
As a gift for the sea

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Cross To Bear

The sacrifice to love
Was found before we found it

Great big grey skies
Long stretches of still water
Eye make-up, sparkling glasses
Dancing to the rhythm of time
Two days of ill confined
Desolation, forty-eight
Hours symbiotically taken
From what's left of this life

The sacrifice to love
Was found way before we found it

Where ones become twos
To embrace and support, to
Give a light to the darkness, to
Drink coffee so many miles away
With time to pen a few words, which
Can’t quite catch either the complexity
Or the generosity of two souls who choose
Freely, to share their precious times apart

The sacrifice to love
Was indeed found, way before we found it

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Weighted

I might pretend
I feel to have
That last ounce of pretence still within me

Of course it will all depend
On the intimate senses
Of dependence which reverberate within me

To share such a stipend
To lean as we once lent
On those exquisite premonitions within me

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