the sun has shown me another day
a day to be of separation and a degree of lonliness
slackened only by the knowledge that i have you
to return to
if there shall come a thousand tommorrows
with none of them mine as i have said,
then they shall be yours.
i long for that time when i should stay behind
with my friends
but i don't dream that the future
will bring a forever sunday world

i am stealing my self back
from those who made me a part of their world
will they let me continue
this metamorphisis? the song says
time will tell, but time only tells me
that my days of growth in understanding
have all but wasted
in this intellectually and spiritually barren
environment.
still if i can grow to be that which i would be
before the interruption
my blossom shall only have been delayed
not destroyed in the bud
nor withered by the dry heat of indifference.

in my songs of love
i have given myself to a thousand lovers
but only known one
this one shadows my heart yet today
though she was taken from me years ago
what of the loves i have had since?
is it true that it is sometimes better to
be loved
rather than to love?
what honest reality is held in these new loves
i may never know
but they will remain real to me
as long as my lovers need me
and they shall be the larger part of my heart
a portion lost in my one love, gone from me

have your ever walked through streets
lined with homes of people you'll never know
and brushed your hand across the fences
and hedges and felt so terribly alone
that even the touch of the leaves is unfamiliar?
you pluck at the limbs
and scatter the leaves on the sidewalk for
no apparent reason;
but you are striking back at your rejection
and the realization that many beautiful friends
you could have, will never know you.
would you know me, given the chance?
this is our chance for love, for these words
though not mine alone to give but to share
are the basis of our friendship, in the dearest
sense of the word, and the words i share
are: i truly love you

i want tenderness to be the better part
of our days
i want to share hours of warm sunshine
in silence,
silence broken only by the singing of our 
hearts and our smiles meeting to form
a kiss of life.
gentle love to last us forever until the world
is ours to share with whomever will come.
the warmth of our wedding bed
will lure us to slumber after a sharing
of souls which no words would dare
attempt to describe
and then to awake and face a new day
together

summer breezes through the mountain trees
bending flowers and leaves as it goes
whistles past my ears
and reminds me of home.
here i am warmed by the same sun
but lost in another's world
here a thousand men hide their lonliness
inside a soldiers uniform and pretend they don't notice
that i don't attempt to hide mine
they are all waiting for their tommorrow
instead of taking their today
and they are wasting these the longest years
of their lives.

inside blue walls above this dirty wooden floor
my soul drifts aimlessly in thought
more into dreams than plans
wanders my mind
but this shall not be time wasted
for each moment of life holds a world of beauty within
and i've set out to find it
and then to share that which i've found
with anyone who will have my gift,
my borrowed gift, for soon i shall have to return
my life from "whence it came"
soon, yes, much too soon
i can only thank god for the time
he does allow
use your life well friend
it is the greatest gift

on the morning after a night of joy
i lay huddled in fear that my elation
might be the last uplift i may experience in this life.
anger floods my mind much too quickly for me
to remain the gentle sun i once was
and would be
my eyes search the horizon for the morning rays
but the dark of night remains.
for me there is shelter in the night
and hours to remember what i am
this is my night world of dreams and fantasies
that i will have come true

come, be my lover for a summer evening's bliss
we'll laugh and love beneath a canopy
of stars
our passion forever unbroken will weld us with its heat
into one entity
a god's gift of affection.
this my body is yours to have
but please share also my soul in an everlasting
lover's embrace, for soon our bodies must part.