GRIEF You & I We were the first of friends At times the Worst of foes I love you now, as much as then How fear does Grip me now To lose you As I watch, As you wither, Betrayed by your Frail mortal frame Words fall short From our lips From years of Not speaking Truer words Ever thinking There's always time I can't grasp The though of Not having You around The panic sets Without control Without mercy What #life wills #life takes too A moment Of childhood Then again of #life imagined Into being How cruelly We parted Having just met, Equals at last Matured men Growing old Together Though our paths No longer Travel together You leave me A richer man For knowing you For being my brother

ENTOMBED Here I lie behind these walls Crudely constructed of Judgements and faults mortared and sealed There is no escape

STANCE The world will try To silence your voice today Not through war or violence But through mediocrity

Maelstrom Love hates Love scorns Love beckons Love mourns Love teaches Love betrays Love lingers Love frays Love lifts Love weighs Love follows Love waits Love gives Love stormy Love takes That's part of Love's story #35W

BEFORE YOU WERE MINE I often wonder what you were Before you were mine? What form were you In this other time? Would I have recognized you If I was so inclined? Or would I have just passed you Without word of any kind? But I was different too Before you were mine A shadow in search of divine And there you were Like a waking dream Suddenly sublime And helped with the Broken pieces I couldn't find The concept of us, Before you were mine Not just you or me But how would it define The act of two becoming one In the grand design A diamond rough until Some polished refined.