In My Dreams by Kip Light

In my dreams we lay happily together

Entwined in each others arms

Each keeping the other warm and safe

From life’s cold reality and harms

 

Some restless nights, I lie awake and watch you sleep

Drinking in your amazing peacefulness and beauty

I am moved so deeply by my love that I cannot help but weep

Tears of joy run down my face as I watch you lie in slumber

 

But when the sun rises and I wake slowly from my bliss

I find a totally different world, cold and all alone

I resist waking with all my strength to steal one last kiss

Fighting the light as a vampire, who fears for his demise

 

Fully awake now, I recognize my reality and my place

In a cold, cold world, alone, am I, in a crowd of humanity

I wish only to return to where I see your lovely face

That land where I am warmed by the presence of you

 

Though I only have one wish I care to be fulfilled

That is to be by your side forever and a day

A world in which we are joined as one, I wish to build

But that world and this are light-years apart

 

I can only pray that, someplace, you are out there

Amongst all this planets billions of residents

And you dream of me, my love, knowing I am somewhere

And someday, by some whim of fate, we shall meet

 

Until that fateful day, should it ever arrive

I’ll do my best to get through each lonely day

To make the best of what I have while I survive

Waiting and wondering, and living in my dreams

Walls by Kip Light

Walls, they hold up roofs or, perhaps, hold out fears

Built for a purpose, not always one of which we are aware

To help us stay warm and dry, or help defer future tears

Some can be seen, others, to anyone’s vision, we don’t share

 

Walls I’ve built, meaning to or not

Never served the purpose I intended

Many times allowing relationships to rot

Built to keep myself safe while I mended

 

They only shut out the ones most needed

To heal my broken spirit and my soul

Those outside the wall left like a garden unweeded

Love dying choked by neglect and evils control

 

So much of my life lived inside these walls

Progress hindered by invisible mortar and brick

Nowhere to go, save in circles, ’till this wall falls

So difficult to destroy, it has become so thick

 

Finally toppled, my walls, by senseless and needless pain

Never to be rebuilt for fear of hiding again my heart

From the one who will finally heal it forever again

Fear is nothing compared to the loss of being kept apart

 

Do I fear being hurt by felling these, my walls

Of course, a fool I would be, possible betrayal to ignore

But my heart can bear pain and countless pitfalls

To find that which, I believe, for me, is in store

 

Walls will no longer delay the journey of my heart

To its destination with its completing half

Walls standing in the way, I’ll scale to their rampart

Or wait for their crumbling, as if struck by a mighty staff

 

I know not when, or with whom, I shall be complete

But I do know she’s out there, probably unaware

That her life and mine are to be, with joy, replete

My heart will continue, without walls, to journey to her there

What is Love?

Love is…..That beat that my heart skips when she enters the room.

Love is…..The joy of simply listening to her talk, laugh and giggle.

Love is…..Talking to her for hours on the phone and still not wanting to hang up.

Love is…..Not wanting a day to go by without speaking to her.

Love is…..Wanting to be a better man simply because of her.

Love is…..Knowing, in my heart, that I would never willfully do anything to harm her.

Love is…..Wanting nothing more out of life than to live it by her side.

Love is…..Being hundreds of miles apart and feeling like she is right by my side.

Love is…..My first waking thought being of her.

Love is…..Watching her peaceful face in sleep because I can’t bear to take my eyes off          of her.

Love is…..Being able to tell her anything without fear of being judged.

Love is…..Knowing that my life would be immeasurably lessened by her absence from it.

Love is…..Holding hands in silence knowing that we are one.

Love is…..Accepting her for who she is and being accepted as I am.

Love is…..Desiring her without requiring anything of her.

Love is, above all else…..Wanting for her to be happy, even if that happiness does not         include me.

 

What is love?

Where is my love?

Wandering through this, my foolish life, ever approaching its end

Wandering alone, yet again, after so long a part of another

Looking for that special one, a lover, a confidant, most of all, a friend

Whose eyes drink me in, see past the broken shell, to the heart within

 

The heart so willing to give of myself, to her and to her alone

Asking nothing in return, save the exhilaration of our shared lives

To gaze into her delightful eyes, to see past skin and bone

Through to her very soul, so tender and so loving, the soul of an angel

 

My angel, created above, created to complete this old soul

To softly hold my hand, travel this journey forever by my side

To comfort me when I cry, and, when she is sad, for me to gently hold

Merging one with the other, for all eternity, in joyous love

 

Where is my love? Am I to find her, or forever remain unescorted

Is she a stranger in my future, or a dear friend I already know

When will I find the one who waits. Waits, by me, to be courted

My love, wherever you are, please hear my heart calling,

 

Forever calling,

 

Where is my love?

Life Goes On

Two souls, once so close, entwined through eternity, so it seemed

Now unraveling, going their separate ways

Two people, once friends, and lovers, and more

Passing the other each day, without touching, barely speaking

Hardly recognizing the other, for the changes they’re enduring

 

Life goes on

 

Night time, the hardest, the bed that we still share

Once so small, the love keeping us close

Now grows larger, each further from the other

For the space the loss of love creates

And the coldness we share for each other

 

Life goes on

 

You return to your last love, though your heart he once broke

You try to heal your heart with his

Leaving mine in loneliness and despair

You go backwards, I forward, to the unknown

Perhaps to know love again, perhaps to remain alone

 

Life goes on, to wherever it will