Love and Eternity: XVIII

XVIII
"As The Earth Turns, As The Sun Shines"

Ever as the earth turns
Ever as the sun shines
Still remains this feeling of mine
A feeling nowhere else will I find
Holding on to mere memories
I can't bear to leave behind
My life a book filled with our stories
Divided and conquered
You captured my heart
I felt helpless
Needed your love
Gave me your passion
With ardor inflammed
In our times together
Touched forever my days
Held as long as we could
Over time, drifted, forever apart
Until now, I've tried to forget you
Tried to, and
Yet, was unable to
Our love, sweet love, how could it be?
Ushered forever, in the bleakness of, forgetful memory.

Love and Eternity: XVII

XVII
"A Thousand Shades Of Pale"

Color me a thousand shades of pale
A vain attempt for me to stay hale
Never has red touched my whitened cheek
Time's distant parting has left me weak
Frowns and sighs in shades of gray
On passing become a part of my day
Rosy pink has turned to cold, lonely blue
Golden memories silver into bleakness too
Emerald green painted my envy's passion
Turned dull by myself's self-dejection
Yearning for elusive rainbows
Of cascading colors that erase my woes
Until you return my days foresee cloudy morrows

Here tonight, as the darkness shall permeate
A silver ray escapes and glistens in my eyes
Silver memories I cling to as I forever wait
Even amidst the tear that glints in my cries
Ever I dream of the colors we'll soon create

Love and Eternity: XVI

XVI
"When We Leave"

When we leave, do we leave truly?
Or has passion marked in those we leave
Nuances of an everlasting memory
There to stay for an eternity?
For a memory, a memory marked quite indelibly
Over times together, together spent gladly
Resides permanently within, within thy psyche
Gone temporarily, as if we never were
Emptiness believed to be forevermore
Time constantly clouding forgetful mind
Yet the unforgetful heart still stands
Our final adieu, a goodbye that will never be
Until I die your memory still beats within me

Elicits within me a distant yearning
Emptying my tears I've long held captive
Surely fair darling you to miss me dearly?
As I reminisce your fairness pure, as I fade to the shade
How can time erase this, this love that we had made

Love and Eternity: XV

XV
"Envelop'd"

Envelop'd wholly by fairness pure
Entranc'd surely by charms that stir
Stir within me a passionate flame
Ardor that blinds within all blame
Heats the emotions to a boiling finish
Forever fancy that'll never diminish
Ostensible flings that fail to fill
Reality craves for something real
Enter the calumny and slanders all
Vilifying our ardor's infatuation
Escape the lies that we may not fall
Rescue the passion from destruction