Frederic

As light dances red to horizon's end

So do we while approaching last breath

To complete life's arc with its final bend

and contemplate stillness in silent death

How quickly we flee from our past design

Find order in reflections we ponder

and struggle with our memory's decline

To lose direction, begin to wander

How fleeting our journey across its space

Through life's brambled meadows of colored days

With smaller shadows and vanishing trace

We cling to days fading of lighter grays

How slow is understanding of our plight

How cold journey's end through darkness and light

a sonnet from a yap from yesteryear

To hear song birds crying as Auster weeps

and see leaves dead, bend while carried about

Dove wings flutter, cool Autumn sleeps

and skies turn gray when Boreas comes out

He'll touch all things when he finally shows

To bring a coldness, warm suns never own

Showing no mercy as his power grows

To cover landscapes, to crackle and moan

Those that are caught by Boreas chilly veil

Will face its sheer strength, so frightful and cold

To watch far sun move with its Winter sail

and seek Auster's breath as seasons unfold

I'll feel my time pass until Auster comes

and count each day till' Boreas succumbs

Roman Gods of wind

Boreas- North Wind

Auster- South Wind

All of me, a singular gift I give

A present given, that's without a bow

A purest love, needing a space to live

Becomes a shelter, when storms quickly blow

All of you, quietly fragile, yet strong

To know there's a place to find home, within

A comfort when worlds collaspe and go wrong

To seek this heart and give thanks, rejoice in

We can not give anymore than we are

And there's no treasure more precious or pure

We'll place in time's chest as we travel far

To journey this path we know is secure

And when suns rise bringing each day that's new

To see a silhouette of you, in the blue

Life's waves washed me upon your Island shore

Tossed by rolling seas, a torn heart maroon

You found me, the sea and sand are no more

Gave caring love in your sheltered lagoon

I had nothing,no jeweled treasure to share

No diamonds bright, rubies red,fragile heart

You clothed me in reason, a coat I wear

For this gift, a promise, we'll never part

My love though humble, is forever free

I place it well without reserve or fear

On your heart's altar, I leave a plea

And only ask, you keep it well my dear

Life had cast me from its brigantine decks

Now, found survivor of my heart's shipwreck

To be in love along the rushing shore

And feel the movement of the smoothest wave

To kiss soft hungry lips for love and more

Obtain our love's desire we need and crave

It's there beneath the lighted sky I find

Love that's found as grand as the widest view

A splendid world warm as the waves are kind

To wet the quiet eyes with love that's true

And hold the tender hand to bond as one

While watching footprints fade in pebbled sand

And see the long red sky from setting sun

Falling into night 'till the stars command

We'll feel each wave upon the warmest skin

And touch the moment until the dawn begin

As white smoke rises on black water glass

And skies lay still on horizon's line

I'll sit here in peace, watch the morning pass

And seek reasoned questions for man's design

This scene doesn't care for a tomorrow

Nor find conflict if a storm leaves a reply

Tranquility brings death without sorrow

Only man has the potential to cry

Does nature understand its own beauty?

Is man nothing more than natures own eyes?

Born to fulfill this singular duty

Until the last moment of our demise

The skies have changed on horizon's line

Seeking reasoned questions for man's design

Somewhere among the bending grass they lay

To dream of days to come with gentle hearts

And seek to fly above the clouds at play

In hopes and wishes that these dreams impart

Caress the face of love with captured tear

And sense a world now found in paradise

Forever bound by truest love sincere

To love's altar these hearts will sacrifice

The sun will be the witness to this day

And hears the words they whisper to each ear

The moon lights silhouettes as love conveys

With glowing ambiance of shadows near

Confessed their love as witness on this day

Somewhere among the bending grass they lay

The lonely voice pierces the quiet night

And speaks to no one but the saddest dark

The stars aloft hold no comfort or delight

They shine not for me on their journey's arc

A face I saw fades in the tear stained sky

As I called out for just one more minute

Still questioning the reasons for the why

This world is lifeless without love in it

Disillusioned I reached out in vain

Finding nothing but two hands trembling still

To grasp at a cold hollow dark in pain

And find an empty chalice I will never fill

To hear the heart calling in quiet night

To watch love's world scatter beyond the light

I searched for you in the night's dimmest light

Found quiet loneliness stirring in dark

The moon's passing covered by clouds in flight

As it slowly traveled its nightly arc

This companion listened but never heard

The words pouring from the lips of sorrow

And questioned reasons became unassured

Still lost in the moon's light and tomorrow

And what help does darkness bring that surrounds?

When thunder rolls in distant skies alone

And hazy eyes still are searching the ground

In the dim scattered light the moon disowns

To have found you before your departure

And capture again the days in time's sand

We looked into the stone of love's sculpture

And found the tools marks of opposing hands

Could I have given better understanding

Could you have given love less demanding

I've spilled this cold chalice of bitter wine

And let my blood flow over chosen ground

The blade once kind shall be slayer of mine

My curse by the treacherous heart you found

I'd ask forgiveness, but my soul has died

A tortured duty for a cause composed

And wrought with dishonor in sheath of lies

I've betrayed your trust, My evil exposed

This body will decay, Your life is spared

To rule this Kingdom with a royal hand

A cruel departure from a shield we shared

Now lay before you, Never to command

I call death now to extinguish my sight

As I find in your pained eyes no delight

To wander in your eyes where nothing lives

And find the pain you keep so close to you

The heart you have has emptiness to give

The color of the world your in is blue

I'll keep my thoughts and offer you a hand

And never cross the line that does divide

To be a healer you can understand

I'll be within your reach and by your side

And never fear the length of coming days

The time within will wash away the pain

Regrets will come and go but always stay

If you conceal what's left of love's remains

To wander in your eyes when you forgive

When you finally heal your heart where love lives

The first light of dawn sliced the fading night

Penetrating the forest of dead leaves

Staining the trees in a soft yellow light

Leaving the mind to enchantments conceived

Fading away is the paint of dusk gray

The sun rises with coat of flowing gold

Melting away clouds as they try to stay

Warming each flower so their petals unfold

Welcoming the morning, birds on the wing

Quietly searching for a morning's feast

A path I will walk to hear them all sing

In awe of Nature of which I'm the least

To see all this life so captive in form

To wander in light so precious so warm

My yesterdays I have folded in time

Then cast into flames where memories cry

Their smoke froze in dark colored air, then climbed

And I saw them all rise to endless sky

Falling quiet in a pit of ashen gray

Where poetic words will never flow again

Lost in flames to the heartache that stays

And buried sadness that's become a sin

To weep long for a love's flame and desires

To remember the smoke rising above

And never again stand over its fire

I'll watch every dream burn slowly away

Within these blazing flames of yesterday

Love's moments burned in the mind sometimes fade

They have lingered to long and now are gone

No reason to be, or feed the charade

False reality to be drawn upon

And yet, some stay like an engraved tomb

Standing monuments in the mind's eye sight

Rearranged trophies within their own room

Filled with memories of pain and delight

When does the time come where they all dissolve

Leaving nothing but a vaporous trail

No mystery to contemplate or solve

Nor pictures to remind that you can fail

Can I focus the mind on tomorrow

And release all the pictures of sorrow

Gentle the touch of smooth brushing kisses

Softly I'll come to you, Softly I will

Tender the night with eyes hungered wishes

Calm are the hearts beating faster still

Warm is the breath that crosses the spaces

And love is the spring of time's winding clock

Tremors from fingers that leave trailed traces

Gives patience the key that opens the lock

Lost in a moment where melding is king

Traveling in sync from rushes within

Finding paradise in flights without wings

Sacred, vulnerable rejoicing in

Time is in motion and time will standstill

Softly I'll come to you, Softly I will

Along feathered edges the red sun sets

Dreams pierce the evening sky that eyes explore

Two hearts now whisper, paradise is met

While kisses feel warm on the sandy shore

Sublime and time have merged to reminisce

And white caps begin tilling pebbled sand

A world passes the changing light is missed

Blamed on tender touches by lover's hands

Beneath black sky the rolling waves implore

To share the intimate nature of love

Feeling the presence of the waves encore

Lay awash in awe, under the stars above

No need to speak, eyes will not ignore

Their fate is sealed lovers for evermore

Looking back, I found a fool, now silent

And as each memory plays in my mind

I tried to hide my heart's fragile lament

As truth is the light that can be unkind

Time was passing and confusion was king

To young to see, to stupid to know

Life was a circus, I stood in its ring

No reason was sought, nothing more to know

I see now what I should have known then

Pleasure turned to hel* when that's all there was

When each day was like the last come again

And every lover grew tired just because

I became lost time they dispensed with

A house of glass where reflections reveal

Fallen monuments from memories myth

And illusions sustained that were concealed

What does it add up to? When old and bent

A life lived or a life that was wasted

To travel unpaved roads without consent

And find the sweetest food never tasted

Looking back, found a fool for all to see

It was someone I've known, It was me

If I could find life's reason

It'll be buried under the dead

No time to escape its treason

The Earth must always be fed

I'll give no thought of distance

For we have traveled far

And learned the art of resistance

As we followed the furthest star

The depth of our humanity

Only as deep as the mud we'll walk

As we argue over our insanity

Words have no meaning, it's all talk

We use to climb high mountains

To see what's on the other side

Now we search for homes with fountains

With tall walls to hide inside

I claim no knowledge or wisdom

Nor understand the cause

The day mankind succumb

To his spirit's self-applause

The past, a memory covered in fog

There's nothing but shadows that come and go

A silent movie without dialogue

A dark play, laughter and a freak show

I have seen blackened skies with all their storms

And touched the salt water that moves with tides

Held trembling hands that sought to be warm

Cried in anguish as humanity died

I was nothing, I'll be nothing after

In between are the fleeting tomorrows

On farthest hills play children in laughter

Never seeing the time that they borrow

To be that child again, filled with wonder

Not the bitter man life split asunder