2002-04-25: Sunny days

(More sorting out - and I found a new cache of stuff so will see what is worth typing up).

Balmy days
In summer haze

I love you

In so many

Different ways

Through hell

And high water

We do things

We never ought to

In the name of passion

And in the middle of the night
When you're not there

To hold me tight

To make it right

I remember those sunny days

Lies (2016)

 The lies fell from your lips

Like fruit from a tree

On a breezy day,

To fester and rot on the floor.

And I just stood

Waiting for more,

My eyes on the fruit

Still on the tree.

But that fruit

Was never meant for me.

(I don't have a date for this one - I just found it in some paperwork I was sorting out. However it was written on a hotel invoice from summer 2016 so probably around then).

2023-06-01: Untouchable

 

Somehow I’ve become

Untouchable

Aloof

Invisible

 

When all I want

Is to be seen

Heard

Felt

I don't want this to be

All I can say

All I can be

All that there is

©cvb

Come with me

 I was decluttering and came across this in a mostly unused notebook. The only date it has is 3rd March....
I confess I tweaked the last verse, and I wonder whether it really needs something else as well. I might return to this one at some stage.

Take it slowly
There's no rush
I want to savour
Every touch
I'll wait for you
To come to me

Come to me, my lover,
In the darkest hour of night.
I will hold you close

Until we find the light.

Come to me, my love,

In dawn's early light.

I will stay there with you

Until we make it right.

Come to me, my love,

When the sun is high above

And lie down beside me

Until we find the love

2004-03-01: Travelling

 (from the same notebook as "remembering")

I seem to spend

a lot of time

travelling

here and there

always with destinations

but never quite arriving

2004-04-18: Remembering

I just found this in a notebook, across two pages, I'm in two minds whether the pages are connected or not, or whether this is two pieces on a similar theme, both of which need more work 🤔 

part/page 1:

Is it really better 

to have loved & lost 

rather than not knowing 

what I miss ?

To remember his touch,

his voice, his kiss,

How he said my name.

Would ignorance of that be bliss ?

To know each day

that I can not recover

the smallest part 

of what we had together

Is that really better

than never having felt that way ?

part/page 2:

Sometimes I wish

I could take you from my heart

and purge myself of you,

from each and every part.

To take each thought

and rip it from my mind,

erase you, move on,

and never look behind.

But you're a part of me

wherever you may be,

every fibre of me remembers you,

I shut my eyes and you are there.

2016-01-01: Dare to dream v2

For a while
I dared to dream
That you were what
You seemed to be

But I knew
It would always end
With me the fool
And you the Joker