I am here, you are there
Miles apart, half of the world
We have to cross the seas and lands
We have to endure the storms coming
You are there, so far away, unreachable
I say this, you say that, misunderstanding
Hard to communicate, different opinions
Upsetting one another even not intentionally
Causing pain in the heart and soul, shattering
Over the mountains, through seven seas
Enduring the pain, winter, spring, autumn
Summer comes, is there a flicker of hope?
Can we overcome the hurdles, the storm?
I don’t know, I really don’t know
faraway
by the bay
a grey day
don’t betray
please stay
I miss thee
bended knee
pray with plea
don’t leave me
let’s both flee
where are you?
I am blue
give me clue
please don’t shoo
wish I knew
I am lost
in the frost
so exhaust
what’s the cost?
hope we crossed
Have you ever felt trapped inside, oblivious to the passage of time?
When you cannot swim in sea, climb a mountain or just go out?
I felt like that, that I was drowning in silence
I’ve got to face the challenges without you
My eyes smouldered with that intense emotion
For whatever reason, what’s done can’t be undone
Then I looked at the sky, stars sparkle like diamond
Giving me faith and hope, no matter how I crimsoned
I feel happy again, I know life’s like that and I’m OK
I’m here to stay for I know life’s like that and I’m OK
so let them fall, tears can come and go, so
let them be and some things we cannot let
we fall in love and then get hurt as we
learn some lessons and we just have to learn
keep on living as memories we keep
acquire some skills, doesn’t hurt to acquire
sun rises and sets, every day the sun
life goes on and it’s so wonderful, life
flowers blooming, appreciate them, flowers
rainbow after the rain, see the rainbow
dance by the light of the moonlight, let’s dance
together we see the world, together
let them fall, tears can come and go, so let
life goes on and it’s so wonderful, life
© C E Ayr
Spare us your mercy, we are in love
Forget the cost of travelling, I’m here
With you, everything is worth it
Just to see your face and with you
The jar might be empty, but we’ll manage
Like flighty birds, we are free to groove
Tough life being separated
One day we will be together
The gift of love forever and ever
We are bound together, that is a sign
Sign that we have to be patient
Some sacrifices are needed
We will make the most of this day
With you the whole world is brilliant*
* The Lannet
Photo by Sue Vincent
If I could fly and be with you
I’d do so without any grief
Live beside each other like glue
Remember the touch though just brief?
So peaceful and so far away
I’d do so without any grief
As the wind whistles by the bay
Gathering my thoughts, no regrets
So peaceful and so far away
Sting of loneliness one gets
And there was a chill in the air
Gathering my thoughts, no regrets
Glad when they answer my prayer
If I could fly and be with you
And there was a chill in the air
Live beside each other like glue**
** Terzanelle
The clouds have shifted, should I go?
Should I be rooted here?
Under the branch as the wind blows?
Until I disappear?
The light has passed, should be on course
On my horse without any force
The light has passed
The light has passed
To the fertile soil even coarse
The clouds have shifted, should I go?
Some blocks away from here
Burning with desire as I glow
But away from you dear
Shy from the life of adventure
Now I go for my thirst quencher
Shy from the life
Shy from the life
Experience I want to venture
The clouds have shifted, should I go?
Perhaps you’d like to come
Experience will make us both grow
Away from all the glum
Maybe good, maybe bad, it’s ours
And as we follow the stars
Maybe good
Maybe good
Varied and colourful memoirs***
*** Trijan Refrain
I wonder where I could find you
Wishing you were here even in my dreams
The call of the wind as the sky is blue
Push the limits of what we’ve been through
The heat of your hands or so it seems
I wonder where I could find you
Standing here as the birds flew
The hay as my pillow by all means
The call of the wind as the sky is blue
Hope you didn’t slip from my angle of view
Shell shock and feeling cold from the streams
I wonder where I could find you
You could be in Paris or Timbuktu
And the hawk is being covered by the greens
The call of the wind as the sky is blue
I’m sorry and I wish we didn’t say adieu
Wish you were here and not just daydreams
I wonder where I could find you
The call of the wind as the sky is blue****
****A Villanelle
The stillness of the night
Wind whispers
The shadow of the moon danced on the lake
Searching for a star as my knight
Like armours
Moon and stars and the dance they make
Sea reflects the sky
Fir trees bow
Embraced by the wind as we hope
No need to answer why
Night aglow
Sight of horizon and scope
Wise owl perched on the tree
His night watch
As the moon pirouetted and sway
Stars are so bouncy
Hop scotch
The night slowly pass on its way*****
***** Tri-fall
He loves me, he loves me not
Little by little my heart’s in a knot
Feeling sluggish and sometimes tense
Moths and fireflies glow to my defense
It should be easy, and so I thought
Snow’s falling here on this spot
I fail to see dawn in a long shot
I seem to dissolve whence
He loves me
Smoke came and I forgot
Will he notice me, pain is fraught
We were young and insecure thence
It will be forgotten a year hence
In my mind I had sought
He loves me******
******A Rondeau
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